Cold Metal Process Co. v. McLouth Steel Corp.

PICARD, District Judge.

This cause comes before the Court upon exceptions filed by both parties to the report of a Special Master upon an accounting of patent license royalties due to plaintiff herein. It is essentially an action to recover royalties stipulated in a patent license contract entered into between plaintiff and defendant, April 30, 1934, covering hot and cold mills for rolling metal upon which plaintiff owned patents and which were subsequently installed by defendant. Numerous defenses to the claimed liability for royalties were urged by defendant in its answer. A lengthy trial of…