The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-19

x Su4C e1c&f<r $1k19DT8UV damages 1or al Aeged Infringement of patent righ1s Rwas instituted today by the Sargent ECigar 6 Plantation company of kEtores company 9 su6s1diagy organ Eazatlon of the so callad AeseT obacco kTrusts' The Bridgeport concern, (which operates a big factorysson Wa kter street 4n asdd1<zpn Co seeking heavy Edaunages prays for A permanent i'm E5unctIon against the United Cigar EStores company andstts TOO stores kstralping the coSnpany from, handling For oefertng for sale any kind of cigar For tobacco hum1dor whfqh in any way k4nfringes upon theepa4ent right of the
 un1&ed ssates distTic1 court of New t9o press 1t wsth sreex wigor, having FTs5ec&ed all 6AEeRs o1 1oxnprpnise. ! Fhs sae9gn4 CaaaF 6 Psansation
 S,FespeFoua eza7esiso p and Sapidiy growing fac- EiaEs oe B5dsspoEa capital are invest kaes Of che coTpo1affen includes a EnuzRhsr of prominent Bridgeport bus- Illness uaen The outcome Of the suit Els there4oreA of the greatest interest kto this city,
 The suit hJnges upon the patents Eowned by the eoEnnany, based upon :hunnaadr invented by Allston sar- kgent, president of the plaintiff conn fpany. MT. Sargent's invention is Scientific and technical lines He IS Ia refrigeration expert and Is al
 sTSioS a tn1S sn53eG HIS Epatents embracing 14 features, is the result of years oh@patient experiment guided by Mir. sargent's expert The suit for damages and prayer for a. permanent Injunction means Ethat the so-ca1led Tobacco Trust will 5 be forced to bring it's books into fcourt, so that so far as the hu1nidor or3Sa '3o P& 45,sinsgs s si1s Is Goneerned EsOme interesting information given to Ithe public concerning the methods by which the big corporation operates Fand overcomes its small competitors.
 AlIston Sargent, President of the sar- gent Cigar E Plantation O., in his of flee at 11S5 Broadway. in discussing 1 the Sargent hunidor, and have spent l years of time in experimenting and i large sums of money to perfect my hu- | ents embracing the fourteen salient l features Of my invention.
 About six months ago the Trust ] 1000 of our hurnidors of the 1000 cigar | capacity. Figures were given them l and they informed us that the order l had already been placed, and they NSA1]N@SN7 geant Cigar & Plantation Company. l We told them they had ordered hu- our patent, and, that the United Cigar Stores Company was liable for dam ages"
 sHThey said: If you have any rights 1 you would be suing probably''
 /"We replied: we know our rights | and when the time is ripe we will pro- T. feet them
 ssTen days ago Mir. Posey, Vice Pres fdent of the United Cigar Stores com pany, advised our treasurer D. A Sar- gent. that he was perfectly willing to put in the Sargent Cigar 6 Plantation company humidors exclusively in all their stores ,but he wanted to know what he was going to do with the in fringement humidor which the com pany. had on it's hands. He was told he could suit himself regarding their disposal, but that if he sold those hu- nidors he would get into trouble.
 esAt the same time the United Cigar Stores company asked us to send them make a fine window display in their store in the Flat Iron building, and eandidly held out large order, with an evident idea of stalling off a suit months ago notified us to institute, and since such invitation they have evil dent1y changed their mind.
 Our attorney, Robert Starr Allyn, served notice upon the United Cigar Stores company three weeks ago, that it offered for sale. and was selling in
 
 in other places, the humidor which we claim is an infringement upon the patents owned by us, and that it must cease such sales.
 s'We propose to fight this suit to a finish, and our attorney is bringing suit against the United Cigar Stores company in every state, and territory in the Union in which it does business We propose to collect damages and to protect our rights and interests, also 0ur stockholders. We have not the enormous capital of the American To- bacco company, of which the United Cigar Stores company is a subsidiary but we will fight for our conn- merciaI rights. We are down East Yankees and believe in fighting when l necessary.
 saThe American Tobacco company ( ,r it's subsidiary company. the United l Cigar Stores company has no possible .hance to harm us, or to injure our business in any way, shape or form, I ave by selling what we hope to prove n court to be an infringement on our. patents, as we do mail order busi- t less exclusively.