Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co. v. Wood
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama; Robert T. Ervin, Judge. Suit in equity by Albert Baldwin Wood against the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company for infringement of letters patent, No. 1,182,439, issued to the plaintiff.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama; Robert T. Ervin, Judge. Suit in equity by Albert Baldwin Wood against the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company for infringement of letters patent, No. 1,182,439, issued to the plaintiff. Decree rendered, finding the patent valid and ■infringed by two forms of defendant’s device, but not infringed by the third form, and defendant appeals from so much of the decree as held the patent valid and infringed, and plaintiff takes cross-appeal from that part of the decree holding the patent not infringed by one of…
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Albert B. Wood, is an engineer who has been for many years employed by the sewerage and water board of the city of New Orleans, Fa., which handles its drainage and sewerage on a very large scale with pumps. He also was consulted by many pump manufacturers and has designed a number of centrifugal pumps.
In the course of the construction of the Industrial (Ship) Canal between the Mississippi river and Fake Pontchartrain, a suction dredge was rented from the defendant, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company. This dredge was equipped with a suction pump of the kind…
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