SUPERIOR TESTERS, INC. v. DAMCO TESTERS, INC.

Civ. A. No. 69-726.

336 F.Supp. 37 (1971)

SUPERIOR TESTERS, INC., Plaintiff, v. DAMCO TESTERS, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

June 29, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. J. Gray, III, New Orleans, La., Harvey B. Jacobson, Jr., Washington, D. C., H. Minor Pipes, Houma, La., for plaintiff.

Gerald F. Lofaso, Houma, La., Carlos A. Torres, Houston, Tex., Nathan Greenberg, Gretna, La., for defendants other than Brown Oil Tools, Inc.

Philip J. McMahon, Houma, La., Charles A. Keilin, Houston, Tex., for defendant Brown Oil Tools, Inc.


RUBIN, District Judge:

"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."1 The bitter foes in this patent infringement action, Lee Matherne and Darwin A. Miller, were two of the three original directors of Superior Testers, Inc. Superior's third director was Matherne's wife. Superior had obtained an exclusive license to use certain pipe-testing equipment from Brown Oil Tools, Inc., which held patents on the equipment. After a disagreement between...

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