v0860-493

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No. 2370.

United States

Circuit Court of Appeals

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT.

Walter B. Bliss and Fresno Mono-

gram Adjustable Buckle Com-

pany, a corporation,

Appellants,

vs.

George P. Spangler,

Appellee.

APPELLANTS' OPENING BRIEF.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree award-

ing an injunction.

Appellee Spangler on November 4, 191 2, filed his bill

of complaint in the lower court against Walter B. Bliss,

Fresno Monogram Adjustable Buckle Co., a corpora-

tion, and Modern Sales Agency of America, Limited, a

corporation, defendants. The bill is in the usual form,

charging that the defendants jointly infringed United

States letters patent No. 972,937, issued to appellee

Spangler October i8th, 1910, for a buckle for belts,

hereafter called the Spangler patent. The Modern

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