Keith v. Endicott Johnson Corp.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The action at law, in aid of which the bill of discovery was filed, claims damages in the aggregate of $1,000,000 on one hundred causes of action, half of which sound in contract and half in tort. The plaintiff is the owner of patents on cementing apparatus used in the manufacture of shoes. The defendant is a large shoe manufacturing corporation to which he claims to have leased certain of his patented machines. By the terms of the alleged leases, the defendant was to pay a rent or royalty computed at a stated rate per pound on all adhesives used in connection with the…