PANTHER PUMPS & EQUIPMENT CO., INC. v. HYDROCRAFT, INC.

No. 71-1125.

468 F.2d 225 (1972)

PANTHER PUMPS & EQUIPMENT CO., INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HYDROCRAFT, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 24, 1972.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur T. Susman, Alvin D. Shulman, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Roy E. Petherbridge, John M. O'Neill, Edward D. Gilhooly, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, and PELL and STEVENS, Circuit Judges.


STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

A jury found one claim in each of two patents1 owned by plaintiff valid and infringed by defendants' paint spray unit and awarded damages of $150,000 against the corporate defendant and $5,000 against each of the two individual defendants.

This appeal raises six separate issues: (1) whether the court erred as a matter of law or abused its discretion by refusing to submit 32 special interrogatories to the...

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