United States Courts of Appeals Reports; Cases Adjudged in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...lighting." He adds: " If the present Wit had been commenced in 1880, or at any time during the s111d_ development of the defendant's incandescentlighting busmess I feel sure, from my acquaintance with the defend'"lt'S directors and stockholders who furnished the money for 'l"1PiI1g its business, that they would have decided not to extend that branch of the business materially until a. decision had been reached in the suit." Again he says: " If the Pfefleflt suit had been brought promptlv in 1880, when the Plalllfifi first had knowledge that the defendant was manufacturing and selling incandescent lamps, and had been prosecuted l' the present decision with reasonable diligence, the Argument for Appellant. cash investment of the defendant in this branch of its business would have been very small. I do not believe it would llB.V68Kceeded fifty thousand dollars." Further, he expressly says that the long delay of the Edison Company to institute any suits whatever, notwithstanding their threats of suit, (threats, however, of a vague and general character, and never speelficalll under the particular patent in suit, ) induced the officers and.directors of the defendant to believe that even these geflfilfil threats were made "for the purpose of influencing bilslmi and without the intention of instituting any such siiitsdlllll that this belief thus created led to the investment of the enormous capital under which the defendant was operallllg " the day when, after five years' delay, some tliii't.Y dlflmni suits were brought against the defendant and its custoineis: involving not less than fifteen of the plaintiffs I1l1l116l'0ll patents., _ 5. The good faith of the...