No. 3901 | 6th Cir. | Jun 5, 1923
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the defendant Jeffrey N. Collins, enjoining him from prosecuting an action brought by him against the Hupp Motor Car Company, in the same District Court in which this action is pending, for infringement of letters patent issued to the plaintiff, Blackmore, and owned by him. The suit of Collins against the Hupp Motor Company is based upon the assumption that contracts between Blackmore and Collins, purporting to be contracts of exclusive sales agency, conveyed such a right to Collins as would enable him to maintain a suit for infringement.
It is the general rule that a reviewing court will not, upon an appeal from an order granting or denying a preliminary injunction, reverse the order of the District Court, unless it clearly appears that the court has exercised the discretion vested in it to grant or refuse such temporary injunction upon a wholly wrong conception of the facts or law of the case. Jacques Rousso v. First Nat. Bank of Detroit (No. 3770),
The question of the right of the plaintiff to a temporary injunction restraining Collins from further prosecuting the case against the Hupp Motor Car Company involves practically a final determination of the substantial questions involved in the action pending in the District Court, in which this order refusing to grant a temporary injunction was entered. It further appears that these cases are both pending in the same court, and that this particular case has been assigned for hearing. It is therefore unnecessary, and we think' improper, to discuss at this time the question of the merits of this case. It is sufficient to say that this court is of the opinion that the District Court, having control of both of these cases, has not abused its discretion in refusing to grant a temporary injunction.
Judgment affirmed.