U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut March 13, 1907, No. 1,169 (Ball & Socket Fastener Co. v. Patent Button Co.)

PRATT, District Judge.

The preamble of the agreement in suit shows that the Patent Button Company had certain rights under the Shorey patents and in any “improvements upon the inventions described in said patents,” and that said inventions for separable fasteners had no relation to the “fixed buttons made and sold by the Patent Button Company,” but did relate to the “separable fasteners made and