Robinson v. Wayne

MILLER, Associate Justice.

The important question of this appeal is whether it appeared from appellant’s complaint in the District Court that there were adverse parties to the suit, residing in a plurality of districts not embraced within the same state.1 Following a three-party interference proceeding in the Patent Office, *768priority was awarded to appellant Robinson on two counts, and to appellee Wayne, on fifteen of the seventeen counts involved in the proceeding. Cannon, the third applicant, received no award. Robinson then commenced suit in the District Court, under Revised Statutes Section…