Ball & Socket Fastener Co. v. Ball Glove Fastening Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. In Equity. Bill for relief in respect to a contract relating to certain patents for improvements in glove fasteners. There was a deeree for complainant in tlie court below. See 36 Fed. Rep. 309, 39 Fed. Rep. 790, and 53 Fed. Rep. 245. Respondent appeals.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. In Equity. Bill for relief in respect to a contract relating to certain patents for improvements in glove fasteners. There was a deeree for complainant in tlie court below. See 36 Fed. Rep. 309, 39 Fed. Rep. 790, and 53 Fed. Rep. 245. Respondent appeals. The contract in question was as follows: Tliis agreement, made this twenty-first'day of March, A. D. 1885, by and between the Kail and Socket Fastener Company of Nashua, N. II., a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of New Hampshire, party…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The appellant (respondent below) contends that there- is no jurisdiction in equity over the subject-matter of this bill. If, it is a bill for infringement, as the complainant below seems to regard it, the parties are properly made, and the jurisdiction is, of course, not to be questioned. If it is to be taken as a bill for a specific enforcement of rights under the contract set up in it, the court is yet of the clear opinion that for that purpose we have here the proper parties, and full jurisdiction in equity over the merits of the controversy.
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