Carson v. American Smelting & Refining Co.

• Decision Date: 18 February 1928
• Docket Number: No. 144.,144.
• Citation: 25 F.2d 116
• Court: U.S. District Court — Western District of Washington
• Parties: CARSON et al. v. AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING CO. (substituted for American Smelters' Securites Co.).

25 F.2d 116 (1928)

CARSON et al. v.AMERICAN SMELTING & REFINING CO. (substituted for American Smelters' Securites Co.).

No. 144.

District Court, W. D. Washington, S. D.

February 18, 1928.

John H. Miller, of San Francisco, Cal., Raymond Ives Blakeslee, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Lewis P. Shackleford, of Tacoma, Wash., for plaintiffs.

Charles Earl, of New York City, George Donworth and Donworth, Todd & Holman, all of Seattle, Wash., and A. F. Mecklenburger, Arthur A. Olson and Jones, Addington, Ames & Seibold, all of Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

NETERER, District Judge.

In response to an order of the master in chancery to file a detailed statement of account in form of debtor and creditor under equity rules 62and63, showing profits accrued to the defendant from the patent infringement, the defendant filed a statement purporting to show expenses by use of infringing furnaces in its several plants and expenses in use of four other types of furnaces which, it claims, were open to defendant's use and each capable of producing the same result, and which, it asserted, are proper standards of comparison, showing gain by saving from the use of the invention, if any.The statement (side-charging patent in suit) and the statement of one of the four types of center-charged furnaces, follow:

                                   Statement of Account
                        American Smelting & Refining Company, in Account with George Campbell Carson, John Henry Miller
                                                     Trustee, and Carson Investment Company
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                      American Smelting & Refining Company,                                               Debtor
                  To profits, gains, benefits and advantages realized by and/or accrued to defendant herein by reason
                     of using side-charged reverberatory furnaces, of the character declared to be infringing by the Interlocutory
                     Decree herein, by smelting in said furnaces ores and concentrates, as follows
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                                                         |  Location of  |  Number of*  |  Adjudged Infringing  |  Amount of
                  Period of Operation.                   |   Furnaces.   |  Furnaces.       |       Tonnage.        | Profits, etc
                  ---------------------------------------|---------------|------------------|-----------------------|---------------
                  April 1, 1916, to May 4, 1925.         |   Tacoma      |        1         |       1,725,562       |      Nil.
                  June 1, 1923, to Feb. 28, 1927.        |   Garfield    |        5         |       2,350,193       |      Nil.
                  November 14, 1915, to May 27, 1926.    |   Hayden      |        4         |       2,347,562       |      Nil.
                  February 1, 1925, to December 2, 1925. |   El Paso     |        2         |         134,381       |      Nil.
                                               Total adjudged infringing tonnage            |       6,557,698       |
                                               Total profits, gains, benefits and advantages ........... .......... |      Nil.
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                 American Smelting & Refining Company — Tacoma Plant.
                                   Reverberatory Furnace Operations on Side Feeding.
                              Adjudged Infringing Tonnages, Itemized Costs and Costs per Ton, within Alleged Infringing Period, as
                                           Shown by Books and Records of Account, April 1, 1916, to May 4, 1925.
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                                        | Year 1916(9 Months).  |       Year 1917.      |      Year 1918.       |       Year 1919.      |       Year 1920.
                                        |-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------
                                        |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per
                  Description.          |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.
                  ----------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------
                  Tons ................ | 102,062     |         | 139,796     |         | 169,186     |         | 181,066     |         | 215,434     |
                                        |_____________|         |_____________|         |_____________|         |_____________|         |_____________|
                  Operating labor ..... | $  9,906.88 | $ .0971 | $ 15,648.54 | $ .1119 | $ 23,296.50 | $ .1377 | $ 26,216.98 | $ .1448 | $ 27,326.93 | $ .1268
                  Repairs ............. |    8,487.52 |   .0832 |   15,031.19 |   .1075 |   21,532.53 |   .1273 |   24,296.13 |   .1342 |   29,317.96 |   .1361
                  Tools and supplies .. |    2,928.78 |   .0287 |    3,211.04 |   .0230 |    5,434.03 |   .0321 |    4,165.51 |   .0230 |    2,768.82 |   .0129
                  Fuel ................ |   50,288.47 |   .4927 |   69,888.80 |   .4999 |  132.932.98 |   .7857 |  210,558.38 |  1.1629 |  247,794.37 |  1.1502
                  Power ............... |      980.29 |   .0096 |    1,530.75 |   .0110 |    2,075.34 |   .0123 |    4,740.22 |   .0262 |    6,109.91 |   .0284
                  Slag metal loss ..... |  109,555.54 |  1.0734 |  133,437.67 |   .9545 |  173,340.66 |  1.0246 |  146,370.78 |   .8084 |  154,499.30 |   .7172
                                        |_____________|_________|_____________|_________|____________ |_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________
                     Total ............ | $182,147.48 | $1.7847 | $238,747.99 | $1.7078 | $358,612.04 | $2.1197 | $416,348.00 | $2.2995 | $467,817.29 | $2.1716
                  Waste heat credit ... |   22,811.35 |   .2235 |   30,804.19 |   .2204 |   46,101.83 |   .2725 |   69,042.09 |   .3813 |   78,084.96 |   .3625
                                        |_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________
                     Grand total ...... | $159,336.13 | $1.5612 | $207,943.80 | $1,4874 | $312,510.21 | $1.8472 | $347,305.91 | $1.9182 | $389,732.33 | $1.8091
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                                        |       Year 1921.      |       Year 1922.      |       Year 1923.      |       Year 1924.      | Year 1925(4mo.4days).
                                        |-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------
                                        |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per    |             |  Per
                  Description.          |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.   |   Total.    |  Ton.
                  ----------------------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------|-------------|---------
                  Tons ................ | 198,338     |         | 178,786     |         | 212,657     |         | 240,889     |         | 87,348      |
                                        |_____________|         |____________ |         |_____________|         |_____________|         |_____________|
                  Operating labor ..... | $ 17,387.31 | $ .0877 | $ 16,907.57 | $ .0946 | $ 19,241.49 | $ .0905 | $ 20,160.12 | $ .0837 | $  6,857.26 | $ .0785
                  Repairs ............. |   31,082.46 |   .1567 |   27,513.64 |   .1539 |   31,663.87 |   .1489 |   35,054.19 |   .1455 |   12,910.74 |   .1478
                  Tools and supplies .. |    2,695.45 |   .0136 |    2,190.15 |   .0123 |    1,568.16 |   .0074 |      696.16 |   .0029 |      325.78 |   .0037
                  Fuel ................ |  271,553.76 |  1.3691 |  223,100.63 |  1.2478 |  168,777.60 |   .7936 |  165,003.13 |   .6850 |   64,731.11 |   .7411
                  Power ............... |    3,660.60 |   .0185 |    4,427.87 |   .0248 |    4,899.50 |   .0230 |    4,253.02 |   .0176 |    1,223.69 |   .0140
                  Slag metal loss ..... |  103,245.97 |   .5206 |  115,682.17 |   .6470 |  126,864.61 |   .5966 |  132,784.31 |   .5512 |   47,808.55 |   .5473
                                        |_____________|________ |_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________
                     Total ............ | $429,625.55 | $2.1662 | $389,822.03 | $2.1804 | $353,015.23 | $1.6600 | $357,950.93 | $1.4859 | $133,857.13 | $1.5324
                  Waste heat credit     |   84,925.72 |   .4282 |   76,374.04 |   .4272 |   63,981.90 |   .3009 |   58,830.22 |   .2442 |   22,510.24 |   .2577
                                        |_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________|_____________|_________
                     Grand total ...... | $344,699.83 | $1.7380 | $313,447.99 | $1.7532 | $289,033.33 | $1.3591 | $299,120.71 | $1.2417 | $111,346.89 | $1.2747
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                  American Smelting & Refining Company — Tacoma Plant.
                                      Summary of Reverberatory Furnace Operations.
                  Adjudged Infringing Tonnages, Total Itemized Costs and Total Average Cost per Ton on Side-Charged
                     Reverberatory Furnaces, in Comparison with Four Types of Center-Charged Reverberatory Furnaces
                     (Standards of Comparison), Together with Cost Differentials in Total and Per Ton, for Period
                     April 1, 1916, to May 4, 1925.
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