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JAMES HEDDON'S SONS v. AMERICAN FORK & HOE CO.

No. 9842.

148 F.2d 230 (1945)

JAMES HEDDON'S SONS et al. v. AMERICAN FORK & HOE CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 4, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ephraim Banning, of Chicago, Ill. (Samuel W. Banning and Banning & Banning, all of Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for appellants.

Frank M. Slough, of Cleveland, Ohio, for appellee.

Before SIMONS, MARTIN, and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

Some 30 or 35 years ago golf club manufacturers began substituting tubular steel shafts for the conventional hickory shafts in golf clubs. It was thought as disclosed by Knight in his patent No. 976,267, that hickory offered but small resistance to tortional strain, causing the club head to twist upon impact, and so to make the flight of the driven ball uncertain and irregular. Knight, among others, observed, the need of suppleness in a golf...

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