Legal Opinion
Robertson Rock Bit Co. v. Hughes Tool Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 27, 1949No. 12690PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
Appellee, Hughes Tool Company, plaintiff below, manufactures and for many years has manufactured and sold by the tens of thousands rotary drilling bits used extensively in the drilling of oil wells.
Appellant, Industrial Manufacturing & Tool Co., was organized, by Colin T. Robbertson, in March, 1947, and, until going out of business a few months afterwards, because sued by Hughes, it manufactured about 200 bits of like kind with those Hughes now manufactures.
Appellant, Robertson Rock Bit Company, Inc., organized by Robertson after, and because of, Industrial’s going…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Cuno Engineering Corp. v. Automatic Devices Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Hotchkiss v. GreenwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
- Textile MacHine Works v. Louis Hirsch Textile MacHines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Williams Iron Works Co. v. Hughes Tool Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1940
- Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. v. Hughes Tool Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Jeoffroy Mfg., Inc. v. William T. Graham. William T. Graham v. Jeoffroy Mfg., IncCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
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- Jeoffroy Mfg., Inc. v. GrahamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1953
- Thurber Corporation v. Fairchild Motor Corporation and Ford Motor CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Laitram Corporation v. Deepsouth Packing CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1968
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