District Court, E.D. Michigan April 16, 1941, No. 14892 (Mather v. Ford Motor Co.)

O’BRIEN, District Judge.

The plaintiff herein brought an action at law to recover $250,000 damages allegedly caused by defendant’s infringement of plaintiff’s United States Letters Patent No. 1,-320,775, dated November 4, 1919, which expired November 4, 1936. The suit was instituted on the 4th day of August, 1937, and defendant’s answer filed October 1, 1937.