Adams Engineering Co. v. Construction Products Corp.

HORTON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting a judgment on the pleadings in an action instituted by the appellant for the recoupment from several corporate appellees of certain costs expended by the appellant in the defense of a patent infringement suit.

It was alleged in the complaint that the corporate appellees had agreed with the appellant that all would share proportionately the cost and expenses of defending the *560patent infringement suit filed or about to be filed in the federal district court. The complaint was amended to bring in an additional defendant and answers were filed…