Union Switch & Signal Co. v. Philadelphia & R. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was a bill by the Union Switch & Signal Company and others against the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company and others for infringement of five patents relating to apparatus for electric railway signaling. Defendants demurred to the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
DA LLAS, Circuit Judge.
Upon the argument I inclined to think that it might he possible to sustain this bill against the charge of xuultifariousness, and so avoid multiplicity of suits. After careful examination of the bill, however, and upon full consideration of the authorities, especially of the case of Consolidated Electric Light Co. v. Brush-Swan Electric Light Co., 20 Fed. 502, I am convinced that it would be a mistaken and oppressive exercise of the disere*914tion of the court to require the defendants to meet iu a single answer, and by connected proofs, the allegations made with respect to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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