ROBERTSON ROCK BIT CO. v. HUGHES TOOL CO.

No. 12690.

176 F.2d 783 (1949)

ROBERTSON ROCK BIT CO., Inc., et al. v. HUGHES TOOL CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 22, 1949.

As Amended September 27, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. C. Milling, New Orleans, La., Floyd H. Crews, New York City, Harvey W. Mortimer, New York City, for appellants.

Robert F. Campbell, Houston, Tex., Geo. I. Haight, Chicago, Ill., Edward A. Haight, Chicago, Ill., John Humphrey, Wichita Falls, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, Hughes Tool Company, plaintiff below, manufactures and for many years has manufactured and sold by the tens of thousands rotary drilling bits used extensively in the drilling of oil wells.

Appellant, Industrial Manufacturing & Tool Co., was organized, by Colin T. Robbertson, in March, 1947, and, until going out of business a few months afterwards, because sued by Hughes, it manufactured about 200 bits of like kind with...

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