American Chain Co. v. Chester N. Weaver Co.

(after stating the facts as above). The determination of this cause has been subjected to unusual delay, due primarily to pendency of prior and important matters in my own court, and secondarily to the suggestion, advanced to me some months ago by certain of the counsel in the case, that proceedings looking toward a compromise were pending. The evidence in the ease having been heard by another, the record being long and complicated, and there being so many charges and countercharges of deceit, falsehood, chicanery, subornation, and the like relating to the respective dates of invention and reduction to practice of the two opposing patents, in justice to the rights of the parties, a careful, discriminating, and satisfactory analysis of the matters involved could not be had, save upon ample time being continuously afforded therefor. Such time has been denied to me until lately. The careful reading of the evidence alone, with the accompanying references from time to time to-supporting and contradictory matters, in. order that a vivid picture of all the asserted corroborations and contradictions might be had, has been a task of unusual magnitude.

I have endeavored to perform it with…