Case Name: EL CAMPO MACH. CO. v. LAYNE
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1912-04-04
Citations: 195 F. 83
Docket Number: No. 2.236
Parties: EL CAMPO MACH. CO. v. LAYNE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 195
Pages: 83–84

Head Matter:
EL CAMPO MACH. CO. v. LAYNE.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 4, 1912.)
No. 2.236.
Paienis (§ 328 )—Validity and Inmunoement—Wkdi, Mechanism.
The Layne patent, No. 821.653, for improvements in well mechanism, claim 13, held valid and infringed.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Texas.
Suit in equity by Mahlon E. Layne against the El Campo Machine Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
Amended and affirmed.
A. L. Jackson and Wm, H. Babcock, for appellant.
Coke K. Burns and Paul Synnestvedt, for appellee.
Before PARDEE and SHELBY, Circuit judges, and MAXEY„ District Judge.
Foi other cases see same topic & § numbiík in Bee. & Am. Bigs. 1907 to date, & Rep’r Indexes

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
A consideration of the record and evidence in the light of the briefs in this case satisfies us that the decree of the Circuit Court is correct, in so far as it recognizes the validity of the patent and finds the appellant infringing the thirteenth claim thereof. The decree of the court below is amended, so that the first, second, fourth, fifth, and seventh paragraphs thereof shall read as follqws:
(1) That the letters patent of the United States, issued to Mahlon E. Layne on the 29th day of May, 1906, for improvements in well mechanism, No. 821,653, are good and valid in law, particularly as to claim 13.
(2) That the complainant, the said Mahlon E. Layne, was the first true and original inventor of the invention and improvement described and claimed in said letters patent and particularly recited in claim 13 thereof.
(4) That the defendant, the El Campo Machine Company, has infringed upon the said letters patent, and particularly upon claim 13.
(5) That the complainant do recover of the defendant, the El' Campo Machine Company the profits, gains and advantages which the said defendant has derived by reason of said infringement of claim 13, and that the complainant do recover of the said defendant, the El Campo Machine Company, all damages which the complainant has sustained by reason of said infringement.
(7) That a perpetual injunction issue out of and under the seal of this court, directed to the said defendant, the El Campo Machine Company, its associates, directors, officers, attorneys, clerks, agents, servants, and workmen, enjoining and restraining them and each of them from directly or indirectly making or causing to be made, using or causing to be used, or vending to others to be used in any way, any articles, devices, apparatus or well mechanism, containing, embodying, or employing the said inventions and improvements granted by said letters patent, claimed in claim 13 thereof, or from infringing upon or violating the said letters patent in any way whatsoever.
And as thus amended it is affirmed. Appellee to pay the costs of this court