Holmes

This is an action brought to reform a contract of purchase and sale of certain letters patent. Injunctive relief also is asked. Judgment was entered for plaintiffs, and from such judgment and from the order denying a new trial and a motion to retax costs the defendants Robert H. Anderson, Ruth B. Anderson, Ruth B. Anderson as assignee of Robert H. Anderson, Ruth B. Anderson as assignee of W. C. James and Robert H. Anderson have appealed.

The contract in question was entered into on April 15, 1921, between Ruth B. Anderson, Ruth B. Anderson as assignee of Robert H. Anderson and as assignee of W. C. James and Robert H. Anderson and Ruth B. Anderson as husband and wife, as first parties, and Holmes Bed Manufacturing Company, a copartnership, doing business under the fictitious firm name and style of Holmes Bed Manufacturing Company, consisting of Verne L. Holmes, Gene C. Holmes, and Bondorra Holmes, as second parties, and recites in part “that whereas, the said Ruth B. Anderson is the assignee and holder of letters patent issued by the United States Patent Office, being serial No. 1,074,592 of date September 30, 1913, which said letters patent were originally issued to Robert H.…