SIMMONS CORPORATION v. NATIONAL SPRING & WIRE CO.

No. 5507.

44 F.2d 785 (1930)

SIMMONS CORPORATION v. NATIONAL SPRING & WIRE CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

November 11, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. A. Soans, of Chicago, Ill., and S. C. Barnes, of Detroit, Mich. (George P. Fisher, of Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for appellant.

B. L. MacGregor, of Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before DENISON, MOORMAN, and HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judges.


MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of the Read patent 1,218,314. Only two of its seven claims, 1 and 2, were alleged to be infringed at the trial. The defenses were invalidity and noninfringement, the latter of which was deemed sufficient by the trial court to dismiss the bill. The patent is for an improvement in machines for placing springs in mattresses. The claims in issue are set out in the margin.1 The device...

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