Skidmore v. Fahys Watch Case Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Horace Gr. Skidmore, from, judgments of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, the Fahys Watch Case Company, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 22d day of June, 1897, upon the reports of a referee directing in each case the dismissal of the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
These actions are brought to recover royalties which the plaintiff claims have become due to him and the defendant Harman from the Fahys Watch Case Company by reason of the manufacture of certain watch cases patented by Skidmore & Harman and manufactured by the Fahys Watch Case Company under contracts from them. There were two contracts, one made on the 5th of April, 1884, and the other on the 21st of October, 1886.
By the terms of the first contract Skidmore & Harman, the pai’ties of the first part, agreed to give, and did give, to the Fahys Watch Case Company, party of the second…
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