In re Robert Gair Co.

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

This petition grew out of the following circumstances: A bill in equity was brought against the petitioner in the Supreme' Court of the District of Columbia for an alleged infringement of a patent for an invention, and issue thereon was duly joined. Pursuant to an agreement of counsel for the respective parties, the taking of evidence on the part of the complainant was begun before a notary public in the state of Massachusetts, proper notice thereof having been given; and a witness, one Haynes, had been under examination for the complainant. On the cross-■examination he…