MacGregor v. Chesterfield

TUTTLE, District Judge.

This cause is before the court on a motion to dismiss the bill of complaint on the ground that it appears from such bill that this court has no jurisdiction' over the subject-matter of this suit.

The bill alleges that “this action is brought under section 4915 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and the jurisdiction of this court is founded upon said section 4915 of the Revised Statutes”; that the plaintiff is the true, sole, and original inventor of certain new and useful improvements in alloys or composition of matter upon which he duly filed an application…