Boston Woven Hose Co. v. Star Rubber Co.

The plea of the defendant, Bell, sets forth that at and before the bringing of this suit, and before the date of the letters patent, No. 361,994, he then was, and now is, the secretary of the Star Rubber Company, and also an officer of the New York Woven Hose Company, and that in such official capacity he then performed and now performs the duties of those offices; that he personally neither owned nor owns, had or has, any interest in the machines described as “circular looms,” which are alleged to infringe said letters patent, either in making, selling, or using them, only in so far as he is…