sentences:  Herring brought suit against Glenn Curtiss, claiming he had been cheated out of his property and ideas, but we have to remember that the patent Herring claimed to have did not exist.Herring did some aviation design work for the United States Army during World War I, he later was partially paralyzed by a series of strokes.He died in 1926 at the age of 59, survived by his wife, the former Lillian Mellen.