Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Lewisohn
District Court, S.D. New York
111 Equity. Bill by the Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Company against Frederick Lewisohn and others.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
The necessary method of reaching judgment in this litigation is unusual. In most equity cases the facts are first ascertained and stated; and to those facts what seems appropriate law is applied, after consideration of prior decisions, wherein similarity is not always apparent and identity never exists. In this case, however, the first duty is to ascertain what there is left to decide, having regard to the history of several allied suits; a history writ very; large in the reports, and not calculated to encourage any one who hopes to look upon the law7 as a science.
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. LewisohnSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Nelson v. J. H. Winchell & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. DonohueSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Ball v. BreedCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. LewisohnCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1913
- Henderson v. Plymouth Oil Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1928