Nocona Leather Goods Co. v. A. G. Spalding & Bros.

LAYTON, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a Texas corporation, has instituted this patent litigation in the District of Delaware against defendant, a Delaware corporation, having its main offices in Massachusetts but all of its plants in St. Louis. All of defendant’s records and documents, insofar as they pertain to this case, are also in St. Louis.

None of plaintiff’s officers will attend the trial. Only the presence of its counsel and a single expert witness is demanded and, since both live in Washington, D. C., one hour and three quarters distant by train, the litigation can be carried on not only…