Legal Opinion
Atlas Trailers & Water Mufflers, Inc. v. Gray's Iron Works, Inc.
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided August 19, 1930No. 183PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
Plaintiff sues for an injunction and for damages, alleging the infringement by defendants of a patent, No. 1,544,465, granted to W. H. Lovell et al. and now by assignment the property of plaintiffs.
The patent relates to improvements in trucks. Both plaintiff’s and defendants’ devices, as exhibited in model form at the trial, show a cotton trailer, low, flat, having a central beam with two side bars, upper and lower fifth wheels adapted for securing short turning, and the evidence shows that both plaintiff’s and defendants’ trucks operate efficiently and economically…
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- Grinnell Washing MacHine Co. v. E. E. Johnson Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Sargent v. Hall Safe & Lock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Drum v. TurnerCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1914
- Dry Hand Mop Co. v. Squeez-Ezy Mop Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1927
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- Butex Gas Co. v. Southern Steel Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1941
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- J. R. Clark Co. v. Murray Metal Products Co.District Court, S.D. Texas · 1953
- Atlas Trailers & Water Mufflers, Inc. v. Gray's Iron Works, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1932