Kroegher v. McConway & Torley Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1891, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1889, No. 8, on verdict for plaintiff, William C. Kroegher. Assumpsit to recover for defendant’s use of an invention of plaintiff.
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Appeal, No. 18, Oct. T., 1891, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1889, No. 8, on verdict for plaintiff, William C. Kroegher. Assumpsit to recover for defendant’s use of an invention of plaintiff. By his statement, plaintiff claimed that defendant was indebted to him under an agreement by which defendant was to have the exclusive use of an invention of plaintiff for forging hooks for car couplers out of wrought iron, and to pay therefor 25 cents royalty on each car equipped with two of said couplers. On Oct. 6, 1890, plaintiff amended his statement by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
A judge is not bound to answer in detail every point that ingenious counsel may put to him, nor even to affirm correct legal propositions in the exact phrase asked for. As was said by the present Chief Justice in Com. v. McManus, 143 Pa. 64: “ If the law applicable to his ease is plainly, fully, and accurately stated, he has no cause of complaint though the judge choose to express it in his own words.” If this is the rule in trials for murder, a fortiori it must be the rule in merely civil issues.
In the present case fourteen points were presented by counsel for…
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