Wood v. Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Co.

ERVIN, District Judge.

This matter comes on to be heard on a motion filed by defendant to reopen the former decree of this court and permit defendant to offer newly discovered evidence tending to show anticipation of the idea disclosed in plaintiff’s patent, and, further. because it is claimed the court, in the injunction granted in favor of plaintiff, exceeded the jurisdiction of the court, in that it overlooked the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1918 (40 Stat. 705, c. 114 [Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 9465]), amending the Act of June 25, 1910.

I here quote the material portions, both of the…