PIERCE v. AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY

No. 5529.

280 F.2d 278 (1960)

Helen Russell PIERCE, Executrix, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, Inc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Rines, Boston, Mass., with whom David Rines and Rines & Rines, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

J. Pierre Kolisch, Portland, Or., with whom Robert L. Thompson, Boston, Mass., Edward D. Phinney, Albert Reiss, New York City, and Dike, Thompson & Bronstein, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

This is another chapter in protracted litigation in this and other circuits involving a group of patents for electrical systems and apparatus for use primarily in the art of radio communication issued to the late George Washington Pierce.1 This time we have before us four appeals by the plaintiff below. One pair of appeals is from a single final judgment entered in two cases consolidated in the District Court for...

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