Richmond Screw Anchor Co. v. United States

This is a suit by thé Anchor Company brought under the Act of June 25, 1910, c. 423, 36 Stat. 851, as amended July 1, 1918, c. *114, 40 Stat. 704,-705, to recover-for the infringement of Letters Patent No. 1,228,120 for a cargo beam, granted May 29,1917, to Melchior Lenke, 'and assigned by^ Lenke to Thomas E. Chappell, and by Chap-pell to the Anchor Company.

The Court of Claims first decided that the plaintiff-was entitled to recover from the United States. Thereafter the court made a second decision, on December 7, 1925, in which it found as an additional fact that through the contractors who…