Van Choate v. General Electric Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
At Law. Action by one Van Choate against the General Electric Company. /On motion by Georgiana C. Van Choate, administratrix, for leave to appear and prosecute the action.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is an action of tort to recover damages for infringement of the plaintiff’s patent, “together with such additional amount, not exceeding in the whole three times the amount of such actual damage, as to this honorable court may seem meet and just under the circumstances.” It is brought under Rev. St. § 4919 (Comp. St. 1916, § 9464), and is an “action on the case” within that statute.
Several motions were made to amend the declaration. One of them was heard and disallowed by Judge Lowell on February 26, 1907. No action appears to have been taken on the others. The…
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