Brookfield v. Novelty Glass Mfg. Co.

RANKING, District Judge.

The bill of complaint in this case was filed in 1901 by William Brookfield as sole complainant. By it he alleged that he was the sole owner of two patents, Nos. 542,565 and 532,973, for improvements in presses for making glass insulators' for telegraph poles, etc., capable of conjoint use and actually conjointly used by him in one and the same machine, and that they were also so used by the defendant company in infringement of his rights. There was the usual prayer for an injunction and an accounting. On the hearing upon pleadings and proofs, Brookfield having died and…