Legal Opinion
Wailes Dove-Hermiston Corp. v. Oklahoma Contracting Co.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided March 13, 1931No. 3288-543PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, District Judge.
Metal pipe lines that carry gas, water, and petroleum are buried in the ground. There is a soil stress from present chemicals and from the soil and temperature against which science has contended. The plaintiff’s patent No. 1733006 covers a method for coating pipe which is to be placed in the trench. The liquid itself doubtless has many merchantable virtues, and contributes tremendously to the efficacy and value of .the coating so administered.
The evidence discloses’ that as early as 1912 there was a rotary motion of the pipe at the time of the application of the fluid.…
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