Overweight Counterbalance Elevator Co. v. Cahill & Hall Elevator Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This was a suit in equity by the Overweight Counterbalance Elevator Company against the Cahill & Hall Elevator Company and others for alleged infringement of a patent for an improvement in elevators. The cause was heard on a motion for a preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
1>E HAVEN, District Judge.
The complainant seeks by the bill filed in this case to obtain a decree enjoining the defendants from making, using, or vending elevators embodying the invention described in letters patent for an improvement in elevators granted to Philip Hinkle on May 16, 1882, and numbered 257,943. The question now before the court arises on the application of the complainant for an injunction pendente lite. The complainant is not engaged in manufacturing elevators, and it further appears that, prior to the commencement of this action, by resolution of its board of directors it…
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