Kulesza v. Blair

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants filed a bill in equity in be1half of themselves and of 2,000 creditors of one Elbert R. Robinson. Robinson was an inventor who died in 1925. He had secured a series of patents on his inventions, including No. 886,541, issued in 1908, for the infringement’ of which appellants instituted this suit in October, 1929, against the receivers of the Chicago Railways Company, who were appointed in 1926. Appellants claimed that the right to bring the action in their own names arose out of the fact that Robinson had created a mortgage on all his patents in favor of all…