SUPREME COURT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1454, 31 May 1912, Page 9

SUPREME COURT.

" ■■■ »- — t MILK "AGITATORS," ALLEGED IM RINGTMIA'T OF i'ATCN'r. Altcgwt in-fw.ivgp.nifiiv'f of a jiii.t'oiit funnel! tire basis of a. civil action, lioiird in tli.e. fjupism.p C'tiuit; yc-iterday., before' flip Chief .iiisticp. .(Sir K'obprl Stout). 'I'lip ■ •■ariies were (,-t-orii'! Harringinii Mi\cKwan,. pxporter, 01'. Dumdin, ami J. It. Jfap.'Eiv.'aii aiid C'p.j. Ltd., of AVclti'ijgt'ttn, : ph>i:iti;ls; 'and. Joseph llopkirk, engiiu-e!, of Uawer'a, (Ipfendaiit... Sir .lohn I'indUiy, K.C., -with,.him Mr. D-. if. I'liidiay, appeared for the.. pfo'iiififi'Sj. a'nd Jlr. j. C. Ppa.e.pck, -wifii liiiu Jfr. D. I.!; Hoggiird, appeared for .i'o's'e'pk HopKrk'. : It was set oiit in the slatempnt of claim that- 011 Jur.e 8, IHOS, Gp'orge Harring'ton MiicKwan pafe.nte.d an iii-Veiition ■eiVfi't.ferf ''.liiVpro.veinen.ts in iigi(ati'iig. a.'i!paratus for milk and the- like"—an in■s.tiiiineiit oiiip'ioypd in .st.irrfng tlje curd diiiring the pr'ice>s of making che.ese, lie ppiisigneu tlie lotiers-putcin to MacKwnn aiul Co., Ltd. Jt wfls alleged that If.d.Pkir.b. Iriid infi'inye.i! the patent, and that, ivh.e.u. vciuested to.desist lie hail di clined (p do so. l'iai-ntilfs, tiierclore, asked for ■an injiiiic'tiou' io rest-raiit Hoj-kirk from any further i.n.fi'ingeiiie.pt. 'i'hey also claimed jiio.O. damages pi' iiii iiiq.'ii'ity as fo flip, diirtiiijje.s .s.u.st'ajned, .or :i.'ii acc'bii.ut of tlie profits nia.d.Q by Ho.pki.rk fit cini- ■ lippifon witli. Hie alleged ir;iVingemcn.t',

'I'hc tloiencp. Was a general denial; It iV.as .coiJteiide'd that, tlie pa.feii.t al'leKpd to be infringed was .not a good, and valid : pa'-tent,. ; an account of tlie fact flVnt it, had bo'pit anticipated by drawings i.v.iid spseiiica'tions put in, bill' M it ViiS a (rood ii'.nd valid', pak'irt flien jt wiis denied that Ifopkir',-: lipid adopted p'Sai'iitiJj'S' patPjvt, li was contended, nvorepvpr, Iliat Ho]'ikirk was t.ji.e first, to make iui "aj'tatpf" with, tlie prijiciplo of a rako appli'e.d to the blades,

j.eng.tii.y rvideiice was called, having ip do prineipaliy with: 'hp sirnc.tiire ol different. 'niec'lia'p.ii'ciil "agitator?," .tiio'dels ijpi';'ng. iHinluceii.. At 4'.1!0 p.m. (.he ' <ii:r( .adjouriied un'tM this .morning, there Im :iii? stiil a n-nnber of witnesses for the defpneo to be called.