PRECISION CO. v. AUTOMOTIVE CO.

No. 377.

324 U.S. 806 (1945)

PRECISION INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING CO. ET AL. v. AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE MACHINERY CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 23, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Casper W. Ooms, with whom Mr. Will Freeman was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Frank Parker Davis, with whom Mr. Albert J. Smith was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court.

The respondent, Automotive Maintenance Machinery Company, charged in two suits that the various petitioners had infringed three patents owned by it relating to torque wrenches.1 It was further asserted that the allegedly infringing acts also breached several contracts related to the patents. In defense, the petitioners claimed inter alia that Automotive possessed such "unclean hands...

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