GRAY TOOL CO. v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

No. 12990.

186 F.2d 365 (1951)

GRAY TOOL CO. v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Homer T. Bouldin, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

J. Vincent Martin, Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and McCORD and BORAH, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Its suit for patent infringement dismissed on motion for summary judgment, plaintiff is here insisting: that this is another of those all too numerous instances of the misuse of the summary judgment procedure to cut a trial short; that here, as so often before, it has served only to prove that short cutting of trials is not an end in itself but a means to an end, and that in the conduct of trials, as in other endeavors, it is quite often true...

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