David Bradley Manuf'g Co. v. Eagle Manuf'g Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. In Equity. Bill by the Eagle Manufacturing Company against Hie David Bradley Manufacturing Company to enjoin infringement of a patent. Complainant obtained a decree. 50 Fed. Bep. 193. Defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. In Equity. Bill by the Eagle Manufacturing Company against Hie David Bradley Manufacturing Company to enjoin infringement of a patent. Complainant obtained a decree. 50 Fed. Bep. 193. Defendant appeals. Statement by JE IS KINS, District Judge: The appellee, on the 11th day of June, 1888, filed its bill in the court below to restrain the alleged infringement by the present appellant of letters patent of the United States No. 242,407, dated the 7th day of June, 1881, issued to Edgar A. Wright for…
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, District Judge,
(after stating the fácts.) The general rule that a judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction between two parties is conclusive in any other suit between them or their privies of every matter that was decided therein, and that was essential to the decision made, is not here called in question. It is objected, however, that the rule ought not to govern here, because — First, the decree in the suit in the southern district of Iowa was, at the bringing, of this suit, interlocutory, and not final, and is not, therefore, res adjudicata; second, the ap*985police has…
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