United States Consolidated Seeded Raisin Co. v. Phœnix Raisin Seeding & Packing Co.

BEATTY, District Judge.

While this is an action for the infringement of letters patent, the question of infringement is eliminated from discussion because of a ruling by the Circuit Court of Appeals of this circuit concerning the same patent in another case.

This action turns upon a question of jurisdiction, resulting from the act of Congress approved March 3, 1897 (29 Stat. 695, c. 395 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, pp. 588, 589]), entitled “An act defining the jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts in cases brought for the infringement of letters patent,” which contains the following, among…