GENERAL RY. SIGNAL CO. v. GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO.

No. 811.

21 F.2d 697 (1927)

GENERAL RY. SIGNAL CO. v. GREAT NORTHERN RY. CO.

District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

September 19, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Paul & Moore, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Clifton V. Edwards and Lawrence K. Sager, both of New York City, and Neil D. Preston, of Rochester, N. Y., for plaintiff.

Thomas Ewing and Frank C. Cole, both of New York City, Thomas Balmer, of Seattle, Wash., and Fletcher Rockwood, of St. Paul, Minn., for defendant.


JOHN B. SANBORN, District Judge.

The bill of complaint charges infringement of Howe patent, No. 1,551,515, and the answer sets up the defenses of lack of invention and noninfringement.

The plaintiff complains of the installation of an automatic train-control system by the defendant, made by the Sprague Safety Control & Signal Corporation; that company has indemnified the railroad against loss by virtue of any patent litigation and has assumed the defense...

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