Brennan v. United Fruit Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

James Brennan is the owner of letters patent covering certain improvements on banana unloading machines. He brought suit against United Fruit Company seeking damages for alleged infringement of the patent. Brennan charged the defendant with having made, used, and sold banana unloaders embodying and containing the improvements described in his letters patent. He charged also that acts of infringement had occurred within the past six years • in the Eastern District of Louisiana and elsewhere in the- United States.

United Fruit Company appeared specially and filed a plea to…