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COMPACT VAN EQUIPMENT CO. v. LEGGETT & PLATT, INC.

No. 77-2006.

566 F.2d 952 (1978)

COMPACT VAN EQUIPMENT CO., INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LEGGETT & PLATT, INC., Defendant-Appellee, v. Wade H. BARRINEAU, III, Added Defendant on Counterclaim-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney L. Nation, Conyers, Ga., for Wade H. Barrineau.

Robert A. White, Floyd R. Nation, Houston, Tex., for Compact Van Equipment Co., Inc.

Dow N. Kirkpatrick, III, Atlanta, Ga., William G. Konold, Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendant-appellee.

Before JONES, GODBOLD and GEE, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Compact Van Equipment Co., Inc. and Wade Barrineau contest the propriety of a preliminary injunction issued in the context of a patent dispute and unfair competition claim.

The appellee, Leggett & Platt, Inc. (L&P), is a manufacturer and seller of interior shelf arrangements for commercial vans such as telephone repair trucks. For some nine years before 1975, Wade Barrineau was employed first by the predecessor to L&...

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