Florence Sewing Machine Co. v. Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a corporation established under the laws of this Commonwealth against the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, a corporation also established under the laws of this Commonwealth, the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, a corporation established in Connecticut under the laws of that state, and the Singer Manufacturing Company, a corporation Established in New York, under the laws of that state, to recove? the amount of fees for the use of patents which the…
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Contract by a corporation established under the laws of this Commonwealth against the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, a corporation also established under the laws of this Commonwealth, the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, a corporation established in Connecticut under the laws of that state, and the Singer Manufacturing Company, a corporation Established in New York, under the laws of that state, to recove? the amount of fees for the use of patents which the plaintiffs had paid to the defendants in ignorance or under a mistake of facts, and which had been wrongfully taken by…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
1. The plaintiffs and one of the defendant corporations are of this Commonwealth, but the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company is a Connecticut corporation, and the Singer Manufacturing Company a Hew York corporation. The two last mentioned corporations petitioned for the removal of the fiase to the Circuit Court of the United States, but the petition was denied. It is settled that corporations are to be re*79garded as citizens in respect to the right of removal. Railway Co. v. Whitton, 13 Wall. 270. The rights of the defendants are therefore the same as if they were natural persons. But as…
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- The Corporation of New-Orleans v. WinterSupreme Court of the United States · 1816
- James Conolly and Others v. Richard Taylor and OthersSupreme Court of the United States · 1829
- Case of the Sewing MacHine CompaniesSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Hodgson & Thompson v. BowerbankSupreme Court of the United States · 1809
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