Packet Co. v. Sickles
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This suit was part of a litigation of twenty-five years’ standing, which was now in this court for the fourth time.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This suit was part of a litigation of twenty-five years’ standing, which was now in this court for the fourth time. The controversy arose out of the use by the defendants below of an improvement in the steam-engine known as the Sickles cut-off, an apparatus for lifting and tripping the valves of steam-engines, and also an improved water reservoir and plunger, for which E. E. Sickles, one of the plaintiff's, had, on the 20th May, 1842, received a patent. All the trials in the court below previous to the one under review had been founded…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The ruling of the court below, in striking out the two pleas of the statute of limitations, is the ground of the first exception and of one of the assignment of errors.
The rule of that court is not made a part of the bill of exceptions. What purports to be a rule on the general subject of notice to plead is put at the bottom of the page in a note, a mode of making up records on writs of error which is quite novel. What these rules are cannot be judicially noticed by this court, and we are much embarrassed as to the effect of the reference to those rules in the bill of exceptions. The right to…
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