Judson Manuf'g Co. v. Burge-Donahoo Co.

This is a suit in equity for the infringement of letters patent No. 327,683, granted October 6,1885, to L. B. Hogue, for “combined cultivator and weed-cutter.” Hogue assigned the patent to Mi *464chael Ayers on the 11th day of December, 1889, and on the 17th of said month Ayers assigned the same to complainant. Respondent contends that there is no proof of any infringement by respondent subsequent to such assignment, and that complainant, having failed to prove that respondent ever made, sold, or offered for sale any of the machines alleged to be an infringement of the patent, is not entitled to…