Hendryx v. Perkins
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. The following is the opinion of the court below: COLT, Circuit Judge (orally). In this case I thought it would be better to send for counsel and state to them certain conclusions which I have reached, rather than to file a written opinion in the first instance.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. The following is the opinion of the court below: COLT, Circuit Judge (orally). In this case I thought it would be better to send for counsel and state to them certain conclusions which I have reached, rather than to file a written opinion in the first instance. This suit was brought in the slate court December 8, 1883. It is a suit upon a license contract dated October 4, 1878. Under the license the fees were paid to January 1, 1883. The complainant seeks an account from that date. The subject-matter of the…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This case arises by an appeal from a decree on a bill, sometimes styled in the record a “bill of review,” filed pursuant to leave granted by the circuit court. Although, as *804Mr. Perkins, the appellee, justly says, the bill is one of the class which may be filed without leave first obtained, we also may, for convenience, at various points, name it a bill of review. Perkins commenced a proceeding of some nature against the appellants in the courts of Massachusetts. The appellants removed this litigation to the circuit court, where the docket entries commence: “May term,…
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