SUPREME COURT.
INFRINGEMENT OF PATENT.
DAMAGES AWARDED. Damages were yesterday awarded in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice (Si). Robert Stout) in tho patent case, G. H. MacEwan and J. B. MacEwan and Company, Ltd., v. Joseph Hopkirk, engineer, of Hawera. In.this case, which was heard some considerable time ago, plaintiffs claimed .£250 damages from Hopkirk for infringement of a patent for an apparatus for agitating milk and tho like in the manufacture of cheest.
At the hearing, Sir John Findlay, K.C., with Mr. D. M. Findlay, appeared for the plaintiffs, while Mr. J. C. Peacock, with Mr. D. R. Hoggard, appeared for Hopkirk. His Honour found that there had been an infringement, and on Saturday last he conducted an inquiry for the.purpose of assessing damages. As a result of that inquiry, judgment was given yesterday for plaintiffs for .£l3l 18s., with costs as on a claim for 41300, and .£ls 15s. for second day, dE5"5s. for second counsel, 7s. for costs of hearing as to damages, and witnesses' expenses and disbursements for both hearings. An order was made as to tho validity of plaintiffs' patent.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1569, 12 October 1912, Page 14
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187SUPREME COURT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1569, 12 October 1912, Page 14
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