Brodie v. United States

The plaintiff sues to recover for the alleged use by the-United States, without license or lawful right, of a patented invention covered by U. S. Letters Patent No. 1251959 issued to him on January 1, 1918. When he filed his application for said patent he was a British subject residing in London,. England. When said letters patent were granted and when this suit was commenced on November 4, 1920, he was still a British subject although on December 2, 1919, he had declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States..

A jurisdictional question is first for consideration. It is…