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Message started by Knute1 on Jan 11th, 2019 at 12:39am

Title: Re: Get Over It!
Post by Knute1 on Jan 11th, 2019 at 3:53am
Of course there were some that couldn't get over it. One such individual was Lt. Col. Andrew Russell. I posted about him before. He was with the Ordnance Department, but not at the Springfield Armory. He was the one, along with Livermore, who had a suit against the U.S. Government due to the Krag-Jorgensen supposedly infringing upon some of their patents. The suit actually made it to the Supreme Court. It was dropped due to an indemnification clause that Krag-Jorgensen had to keep the U.S. Government safe from lawsuits on patent infringements. The suit was for $100,000. Even without the monetary issue, he still sought recognition of his designs that he thought were being used in the Krag rifle and even in the Mauser design. (Claimed he designed the box magazine and the clip concept.) So even 11 years after the above article was printed he was still getting some press as shown in the Army and Navy Journal from December 2, 1905.
I see this as part of the story about the Krag, albeit from behind the scenes.

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