District Court, M.D. North Carolina October 4, 1957, Civ. No. 982-G (Johnson & Johnson v. Carolina Lee Knitting Co.)

HAYES, District Judge.

This is a suit to restrain defendants from infringing Patent 2,702,998 to James J. Purcell and for an accounting. Defendants plead invalidity and noninfringement.

*415Application for the Purcell patent was filed Oct. 28, 1954 and patent issued March 1, 1955, for a surgical stocking.