Pierce v. Perlite Aggregates Inc.

Full title: Harold Ladd PIERCE, Appellant, v. PERLITE AGGREGATES, Inc., a corporation…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Date published: Nov 3, 1955

226 F.2d 204 (9th Cir. 1955)

Opinion

No. 14232.

October 3, 1955. Rehearing Denied November 3, 1955.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Northern Division; Dal M. Lemmon, District Judge.

See also D.C., 110 F. Supp. 684.

Jamieson Gabriel, Los Angeles, Cal., C.J., Goodell, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Burns, Doane, Benedict Irons, James P. Burns, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and STEPHENS and ORR, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This action, No. 14,232, was consolidated on appeal with the case of Pierce v. Muehleisen and Muehleisen Perlite Processing, Inc., No. 14,184, 9 Cir., 226 F.2d 200. The validity of the same patent, No. 2,501,962, was in issue in both cases and in each held invalid. What we have said in case No. 14,184 has application to the instant case. Upon authority of case No. 14,184 the judgment in this case, No. 14,232, is affirmed.

Affirmed.