Harvey Hubbell, Inc. v. General Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Separate suits for infringement of two patents by Harvey Hubbell, Incorporated, against the General Electric Company and against the Bryant Electric Company, respectively. From decrees for plaintiff, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Separate suits for infringement of two patents by Harvey Hubbell, Incorporated, against the General Electric Company and against the Bryant Electric Company, respectively. From decrees for plaintiff, defendants appeal. The General Electric Company appeals from a decree entered in the District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Bryant Electric Company from a similar decree entered in the District Court…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] It is assigned for error that the court entered “pro forma” decrees. That Cramp, etc., Co. v. International, etc., Co., 228 U. S. 645, 33 Sup. Ct. 722, 57 L. Ed. 1003, ever requires reversal merely for this reason is not admitted, but need not be decided. The phrase complained of, in an appealable decree or judgment, usually means, and is asserted to mean in the present instance, that decision was rendered, not upon intellectual conviction that the decree was right, but merely to facilitate further proceedings.
But this court is not concluded by a…
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