Hall v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

BAKER, District Judge.

Plaintiff, William D. Hall, is a citizen of Elkins, West Virginia.

Defendant, Sears Roebuck and Company, is a non-resident corporation. Subsequent to the date the patent in suit was granted, and prior to the filing of the complaint herein, Sears Roebuck and Company maintained a regularly established place of business in Wheeling, West Virginia. On February 22, 1942, from their Wheeling store, it sold to Emmett Simmons, at Wheeling, in the Northern District of West Virginia, the Stewart Warner South Wind Automobile Heater, filed in this trial as Plaintiff’s Exhibit A.…