Legal Opinion

Norton v. Jensen

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided October 24, 1898No. 421PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from 1ke Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. This was a suit in equity by Edwin Norton and Oliver W. Norton, the appellants, against Mathias Jensen, the appellee, for the infringement Qf four letters patent, viz.: (1) The Norton patent, No. 267,014, dated November 7, 1882, as to claims 1 and 2; (2) the Norton and Hodgson patent, No. 274,363, dated March 20, 1883, as to claims 6 and 7; (3) the Norton and Hodgson patent, No. 294,065, dated…

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Appeal from 1ke Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. This was a suit in equity by Edwin Norton and Oliver W. Norton, the appellants, against Mathias Jensen, the appellee, for the infringement Qf four letters patent, viz.: (1) The Norton patent, No. 267,014, dated November 7, 1882, as to claims 1 and 2; (2) the Norton and Hodgson patent, No. 274,363, dated March 20, 1883, as to claims 6 and 7; (3) the Norton and Hodgson patent, No. 294,065, dated February 26, 1884, as to claim 14; (4) the Jordan patent, No. 322,060, dated July 14, 1885, as to claims 1, 2, 6, 7, 11,…

1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, Circuit Judge

The first question to be determined is whether the matters and things in controversy in the present suit are res judicata by reason of the judgment in the case of Norton v. Jensen, 7 U. S. App. 103, 1 C. C. A. 452, and 49 Fed. 859. The parties in both suits are the same Edwin Horton and Oliver W. Horton were the complainants in the case referred to, while Mathias Jensen and one John Fox M (j-e the defendants. John Fox is not a party to the case at bar, it appearing that he is now dead. His absence from the case may be treated as immaterial. It is also true that the claims of the four patents…

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