Lenk v. Lasher-Peerblow Co.

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This is a patent infringement suit, based on claims 14, 15, and 16 of letters patent No. 1,551,069, issued August 25, 1925, to one Stanezyk, and assigned to the plaintiff. It relates to an automatic blow torch. These claims were held valid in Lenk v. Hunt-Lasher Co., Inc. (D. C.) 14 F.(2d) 335.

This suit was originally brought against the defendant Lasher and the Lasher-Peerblow Company, of which Lasher was the controlling owner and executive head. Since these proceedings started, the defendant corporation has gone into bankruptcy, and it has been dropped as a party…