Purer & Company and Phillip Purer v. Aktiebolaget Addo and Addo MacHine Company, Inc.

This action was commenced in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by appel-lees to obtain a preliminary injunction, a permanent injunction, damages for patent infringement, trademark, infringement and unfair competition, and for costs and attorneys’ fees.

The case was tried by the court without a jury. Judgment was entered enjoining appellants from engaging in unfair competition and infringing appel-lees’ patents and awarding appellees the sum of $36,905.17 as reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees. From this judgment, a timely appeal was taken.

The United States District Court had jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1332 and 28 U.S.C.A. § 1338 . This court has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.A. § 1291 .

Appellants’ first specification of error relates to the ruling of the trial court allowing certain exhibits into evidence over objections. Included in these are certain financial reports of Addo which were admitted into evidence as appellees’ Exhibits 3, 4 and 48.

Exhibit 3 is Addo’s financial report for 1965. It consists of twenty-three pages apparently printed in the Swedish language with a five-page summary in English. This exhibit was admitted to…