Matter of Christensen Engineering Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
IN THE SUPREME COURT OP THE UNITED STATES. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus commanding the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reinstate and take jurisdiction of a writ of error filed by the petitioner in that court,- by which it sought to have reviewed an order of the Circuit Court for the -Southern. District of New York adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OP THE UNITED STATES. This is a petition for a writ of mandamus commanding the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to reinstate and take jurisdiction of a writ of error filed by the petitioner in that court,- by which it sought to have reviewed an order of the Circuit Court for the -Southern. District of New York adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt. The facts are, that on August 13, 1900, the Westinghouse Airbrake Company filed in the Circuit Court its bill of complaint, alleging the ownership of certain letters patent, an infringement by this…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. .
The examination in Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Company, 194 U. S. 324, just decided, of the right of review in contempt cases precludes the necessity of extended discussion.
In that case Bessette was not a party to the suit, and the controversy had been settled by a final’decree, from which, so far as appeared, no appeal had been taken. He was found guilty of contempt of court, and a fine of $250 imposed, payable to the United States, with costs!
In this case the Christensen Engineering Company was…
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