White v. Lee

Tho plaintiffs entered into a written contract with the defendant, by which they gave him a license to use the improvements contained in two certain patents belonging to them, of which Hugh White, one of the plaintiffs, was the inventor. Both patents were for improvements in shoe-tips; both have been reissued, and are in the record. This bill is brought in respect to one of them, No. 190,655, issued May 8, 1877, and reissued January 7, 1879, as *790No. 8,536. The case, which has been before the court on matters of pleading, (3 Fed. Rep. 222; 4 Fed. Rep. 916,) now comes up for final disposition.…