Koolvent Metal Awning Corp. v. Bottom’s Empirical Analysis
205 F.2d 209 · 1953
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2021
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. Brookside Theatre Corp. · Anderson v. Federal Cartridge Corp. · Mill Owners Mut. Fire Ins. v. Kelly · Shubert v. Woodward · American Ins. v. Scheufler
Most-quoted passages
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““We think the inferences thus drawn by the court were clearly warranted by the proven and admitted facts. It is to be noted too in this connection that the court by one of its findings states, ‘Plaintiff contracted by the Matthews settlement to carry the ethics of the market place into the court room and have a lawyer state to the Court that he is not only withdrawing as attorney in the case but, of more serious import, represent to the court that the cause he has theretofore represented is without merit. And without prior notice or knowledge on the part of the lawyer’s record client, the defendants, that is exactly what the lawyer for plaintiff did.’ The conclusion that plaintiff comes into court with unclean hands is, we think, amply supported by the evidence. Having come into court with unclean hands, it had no standing in a court of equity and the other contentions made by plaintiff are therefore immaterial to a decision of this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The contracts as originally executed authorized defendants to construct the Kool Vent awnings as supposedly authorized under the Houseman patent. Defendants, however, were enjoined by the holders of the Matthews patent from continuing operations under the original license contracts. This injunction was in full force and effect at the time of the trial of this suit and it had been procured with the assistance of the plaintiff. Manifestly, the court could not have decreed the enforcement of the contracts under these circumstances. Again, these contracts had been breached by the plaintiff for its failure to defend against infringement and for its failure to grant defendants the advantages which it acquired under its contract of settlement with the holders of the Matthews patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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