Legal Opinion

Russell v. Place

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 16, 1877No. 134PublishedCited by 429 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field

This is a suit for an infringement of a patent to the complainant for an alleged new and useful improvement in the preparation of leather, and is similar in its general features to the suit of the complainant against Dodge, 93 U. S. 460. It is submitted upon substantially the same testimony, and pre sents-, with one exception, the same questions for determination. That exception relates to the operation, as an estoppel against setting up the defences here made, of a judgment recovered by the complainant against the defendants in an action at law for the infringement of the patent.

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2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Packet Co. v. SicklesSupreme Court of the United States · 1867
  2. Russell v. DodgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
  3. Hooker v. HubbardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
  4. Aiken v. PeckSupreme Court of Vermont · 1850

3Cited by429 opinions

  1. Commissioner v. SunnenSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
  3. Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  4. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. GaudetSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  5. Mercoid Corp. v. Mid-Continent Investment Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944

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