Farrington v. Gregory

LONGYEAR, District Judge.

By the showing made at the hearing of the motion, it appears that before the extension of the patent, Merritt, the assignee of Wyckoff, by an instrument in writing, granted to one Arnold the right to use and sell machines in Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties, in the state of Michigan, and that a machine was constructed for said Arnold in pursuance of such grant, and under the supervision of said Merritt, and that the said machine was transferred, together with a like grant, by said Arnold to other parties and by said other .parties to this defendant, and that it is the…