Case ID: mich_281/html/0716-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RUBSAM CORP. v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.
    On Motion for Rehearing.
    1. Appeal and Error — Rehearing—Remand.
    Case involving dispute between licensor and licensee of four patents is remanded to circuit court for determination of .claimed-use of second, third and fourth patents where no determination thereupon was had in circuit court and such omission was covered in statement of reasons and grounds for appeal and of questions involved (Court Rules Nos. 66, § 3, and 67, §1 [1933]).
    2. Same — Costs.
    Appellant who prevails upon application for rehearing and secures a reversal of the ease held, entitled to have original order as to costs vacated and entitled to order for costs.
    • Appeal from Jackson; Simpson (John), J.
    Submitted April 27, 1937.
    (Docket No. 41, Calendar No. 39,357.)
    Decided November 10, 1937.
    Rehearing denied May 4, 1938. Reconsideration denied October 3, 1938.
    Action by Rubsam Corporation, a Delaware cor- . poration, against General Motors Corporation, a Delaware corporation, for damages for breach of a license agreement. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
    On motion for rehearing, affirmed in part, reversed in part and new trial granted.
    
      Whiting ■& Kleinstiver (Harness, Dickey & Pierce, of counsel), for plaintiff.
    
      Milburn é Semmes (Prewitt Semmes, Drury W. Cooper, and C. Blake Townsend, of counsel), for defendant.
   (On Motion por Behearing.)

Per Curiam.

Our attention has been directed, on application for rehearing, to an error in our original opinion reported ante, 691, in that we did not determine whether defendant had used plaintiff’s inventions therein designated as the “second,” “third” and “fourth” patents, numbered and dated as follows: 1,576,225 — March 9, 1926; 1,576,226— issued the same day, and 1,622,846- — March 29, 1927.

Be-examination of the findings, upon which judgment was entered below for defendant, shows that the circuit judge did not determine whether defendant ever used plaintiff’s “second,” “third” and “fourth” patents.

The above question was covered in appellant’s statement of “reasons and grounds for appeal” and in its ‘ ‘ statement of questions involved. ’ ’ See Court Bules Nos. 66, § 3, and 67, § 1 (1933).

Our original opinion of November 10, 1937, should have included consideration of this matter and must be modified to provide that the judgment for defendant be affirmed only as to Patent No. 1, and that the cause be remanded to the circuit court for determination of the claimed use of the second, third and fourth patents.

Plaintiff having prevailed upon its application for rehearing, the original order as to costs must be vacated as plaintiff should recover costs.

It is ordered that the judgment below be affirmed in part and reversed in part, with a new trial as to patents 2, 3 and 4, and costs to appellant in both courts.