HAHN & CLAY v. A. O. SMITH CORPORATION

No. 19942.

320 F.2d 166 (1963)

HAHN & CLAY, Appellant, v. A. O. SMITH CORPORATION, Appellee. A. O. SMITH CORPORATION, Appellant, v. HAHN & CLAY, Lawrence F. Megow, and Raymond E. Pechacek, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. R. Pravel, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

J. V. Martin, Houston, Tex., Irving W. Zirbel, Milwaukee, Wis., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, RIVES, and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from the judgments entered in three separate causes of action, all of which grow out of a controversy concerning the construction of "multi-layer pressure vessels."1 Although the case began as one for a declaratory judgment to define the limits of a patent held by A. O. Smith Corporation, with Hahn & Clay as the plaintiff, the posture at the time of trial was such that A. O. Smith stood in...

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