SCHLUMBERGER WELL S. CORP. v. HALLIBURTON OIL W. C. CO.

No. 792.

41 F.Supp. 345 (1941)

SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION v. HALLIBURTON OIL WELL CEMENTING CO.

District Court, S. D. Texas, Houston Division.

May 29, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Botts, Andrews & Wharton, Brady Cole, and Garrett R. Tucker, Jr., all of Houston, Tex., and Hoguet, Neary & Campbell, Worthington Campbell, and Mark N. Donohue, all of New York City, for plaintiff.

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Francis, J. Vincent Martin, and Jack D. Head, all of Houston, Tex., Lyon & Lyon and Leonard S. Lyon, all of Los Angeles, Cal., and Ben F. Saye and Earl Babcock, both of Duncan, Okl., for defendant.


KENNERLY, District Judge.

This is a Patent suit.

From a time whence the "memory of man runneth not to the contrary," humankind have pried into and endeavored to learn the secrets, and harness and utilize the energies, currents, potentials, etc. (by whatever name they may be known, but for brevity here called "earth currents"), of the earth, both on and below the surface. Beginning with the "willow switch", the "divining rod", and the "doodle bug", and...

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