Walker v. Brooks

This bill was filed May 21, 1877, by Joseph H. Walker and George M. Walker, copartners, against James W. Brooks and Horace H. Bigelow. The material allegations of the bill are as follows :

1st. That on March 21,1872, the defendant Bigelow executed to the two plaintiffs a lease of and license to use a certain patented machine for compressing heels for boots and shoes, for which the plaintiffs were to pay him a royalty of ten cents, or, in case of their rendering true accounts to him monthly, the sum of one half cent, for each pair of heels thereby compressed.

*2422d. That, at the same date, Bigelow…