RICHMOND CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 99.

275 U.S. 331 (1928)

RICHMOND SCREW ANCHOR COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Messrs. Wm. Houston Kenyon, Archibald Cox, O. Ellery Edwards, Joseph W. Cox, and Douglas H. Kenyon were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Galloway, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the Anchor Company brought under the Act of June 25, 1910, c. 423, 36 Stat. 851, as amended July 1, 1918, c. 114, 40 Stat. 704, 705, to recover for the infringement of Letters Patent No. 1,228,120 for a cargo beam, granted May 29, 1917, to Melchior Lenke, and assigned by Lenke to Thomas E. Chappell, and by Chappell to the Anchor Company.

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