Janney v. Pancoast International Ventilator Co.

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

This bill seeks to restrain the defendants from infringing two patents of the United States, Nos. 476,682 and 605,508, the legal title to which now belongs to the plaintiff. The facts are not disputed, and are accurately stated in the following extract from the plaintiff’s brief:

“Prior to June 14, 1899, the patents involved in the present litigation were the property of Joseph O. Henvis and the Pancoast Ventilator Company. At this time the Pancoast Ventilator Company was insolvent. A new company, known as the National Pancoast Ventilator Company, one of the…