Lowry v. Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio
In Equity. Suit by Grosveuor P. Lowry against tlie Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Company and Alanson Osborn to set aside an assignment of a patent. Statement by TAFT, Circuit Judge: This cause came on for hearing on the second amended plea to the bill.
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In Equity. Suit by Grosveuor P. Lowry against tlie Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Company and Alanson Osborn to set aside an assignment of a patent. Statement by TAFT, Circuit Judge: This cause came on for hearing on the second amended plea to the bill. The bill averred that the complainant, Grosveuor 1\ Lowry, was a citizen and resident of the state of New York, and that the Cowles Electric Smelting & Aluminum Company was a corporation under the laws of the state of Ohio, and that Osborn, the codefondant, was also a citizen of Ohio, both residing in the northern district of this state.…
1Opinion of the Court
TAFT, Circuit Judge,
(after stating tbe facts.) Tlie issue which the plea tenders is that by the agreement of May 18, 1885, Bradley, before his assignment to complainant, conveyed to the Cowles Company the patents claimed by the complainant. Whether the plea is good, or not, depends upon the construction of the agreement of May 18, 1885, in the light of the facts averred in the plea. The first objection made to the claim of the defendants in. the plea is that the agreement is between Crocker and Bradley, and purports to convey discoveries, inventions, applications, etc., which they jointly…
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