Hold Stitch Fabric MacH. Co. v. May Hosiery Mills

This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of Davidson County overruling a demurrer of defendant May Hosiery Mills to the hill filed by Hold ¡Stitch Fabric Machine Company, both Tennessee corporations, which challenged the jurisdiction, of the state court on the ground that the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction of the issues involved. The question is one of first impression in this state.

The bill alleges:

1. That complainant is the assignee of one Clarence W. Minton to certain patent rights involving improvements in knitting machines and is entitled to the exclusive use of…