In re Boston & Fairhaven Iron-Works

Cyril C. Child offered for proof against the estate of the Boston & Fairhaven Iron-works, in bankruptcy, a decree for §.5,640.26, recently rendered in his favor by the circuit court of the United States for this district, in a suit in equity for the infringement of a patent pending against the bankrupt corporation at the commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings. It was admitted at the hearing that the decree was solely for profits actually received by the corporation before the bankruptcy from the wrongful use of the invention secured by the plaintiff’s patent, without any addition for…