The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-01-26


not been in public use or on sale in
this country, and which have not
been patented on any application
filed in any country foreign to the
united States by your said orator,
ms legal representatives or assigns,
more than twelve months prior to
the date of his application for
patent hereinafter set forth, and
which have not been abandoned to
the public.
That your orator NJ. f. Layne, be-
! ing, as aforesaid, the true, original
| and first inventor Of said improve
ments and being a citizen Of the
United States made application to the
| Commissioner of Patents of the Uni
ted States in legal form for letters
patent on said improvements, and
that after due proceedings had. the
said Commissioner of Patents, issued
TO your orator, NJ. z. Layne, in due
| form a patent for said invention
numbered 905440 and dated Deem
| Der list, 1908, the same being de-
| iVered to your orator, NJ. f. Layne,
under seal Of the patent office of the
United States signed by the Com
| missioner as by law directed, and
that said patent granted and secured
to your orator and his assigns for
the term Of seventeen years from and
| after said date Of the patent the full
| and exclusive right to make, use AID
sell to others, to be used, the said
invention and improvements set forth
in said patent, a copy of which said
letters patent is attached hereto, and
| OF which your orator stands ready
to produce the original or a certified
copy thereof, as your Honors may
direct.
o.. FOURTH
Your orator further shows unto
your HOnOrs that he has been at all
times since the issue Of said letters
patent, to wit: Patent No 9981S6
to your orator, NJ E. Layne, on July
IS, 1911; patent No. 95797S to your
orator NJ e. Layne, on May II,
1910; patent No. 910696 to your
orator, NJ. f. Layne. on January &c,
1909; patent No. 90544O, to your
orator. NJ. Z. Layne, on December
/, 1908, the sole and exclusive owner
Of said letters patent and that the
title to said letters patent has at all
times since the issuance of said let
tiers patent, down to the present
time remained and been vested in
your orator, NJ. E Layne, and that
your said orator, NJ. E. Layne, by
ceratin agreement and contracts
entered into by him and Layne &
Bowler Company, a corporation, one
Of the compliments therein, con
veyed to your orator, Layne & Bow
Ter Company the exclusive right t
manufacture and sell in the United
States only, save and except The
States of California and the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona
,, all manufactured articles controlled
or effected by the various letter.
hereinabove set out and referred t
!, thereby creating and constituting tn
said Layne & Bowler Company tn,
\ exclusive licensee Of your orator
NJ. E. Layne, and your orator, NJ. E
Layne, AYERS that ever since the issu
of said letters patent to him he ha
been the owner of the inventions de
scribed and claimed therein and o
n all rights and privileges granted o
secured or intended to be granite
and secured thereby, and OF al
\ claims and demands for damage
\ and profits on account of the in
fripgement of said letters patent el
Y cept such rights, privileges, claim
Y and demands as have been acquire
n by your orator. Layne and Bowie
\ Company, the licensee OF the said n
" E. Layne, all Of which said right
" and claims are, and have been gran
/, ed commercial value to both of you
N orators.
v FIFTH.
N That your orator, NJ. E. Layn
n since becoming the owner of sal
NJ patents, as aforesaid, and your Or
N tor, Layne & Bowler Company, sint
N becoming the licensee Of said NJ.
NJ Layne, as aforesaid, have expende
NJ large sums of money and have bee
N to great trouble with and about sa
" invention for the purpose of carr
Nv ing on the business of manufacture
IN and selling we'll mechanisms contai
" ing ard embodying said invention
M and in making said inventions prof
NJ able to your orators and to the pu
VA lie; that we'll mechanisms have be,
IN made and sold in great numbers
M your orators to the public and tn
IN the public has generally enjoyed a.
NJ acQuiesced in the aforesaid rights
NJ your fOrators, and your creators /
IN lieve that the public will contin
w. ~, to SO recognize their rights. but f
NJ the f1ifringements hereinafter COZ
NJ plaiued Of and that your orators W
NJ realize and receive large gains a
M profits therefrom If the said
M fringers Of the defendants was pl
M vented
I'M SIXTH.
NJ That the said defendants.
~ DR.. L. G. Lewis, Welsh, La;
H. |C0rnwell, Welsh La; Jo
o Deaner, Roanoke, La; George W.
n. verton, Elton, La; Thomas Brothe
ID De Walls Bluff, Ark; Webb & SC
t,,%+ <,,,& A,-I- W.T. ~