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Rubber Company v. Goodyear

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 17, 1868PublishedCited by 36 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island. Oil motions. Two motions were made in this cause. The first by the appellees, to dismiss the appeal, the other by the appellants to reduce the amount of the bond given on appeal.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island. Oil motions. Two motions were made in this cause. The first by the appellees, to dismiss the appeal, the other by the appellants to reduce the amount of the bond given on appeal. This had been required in double the amount of the decree; one for $310,752.72. The first motion was founded on the allegation that the final decree of the Circuit Court was entered on the 28th of November, 1866, while the appeal w-as taken to the December Term, 1867, of this court. Aud if the decree was, in fact, entered on the day alleged, it was…

1Opinion of the Court

The CHIEF JUSTICE

delivered the opinion of the court.

The final decree, filed and entered on the 5th of December, 1866, it will be seen, is for the most part in the very language of the order; but uses the introductory words appropriate to a decree, and describes particularly the patents in controversy, and ascertains the amount of costs taxed. It omits the explanatory directions of the order as to the bond to be given on appeal; but the entry of the decree is followed immediately by another entry stating that an appeal was prayed for by-respondents in open court, and was allowed, upon filing a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Mesa v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1863

3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
  2. Scofield v. National Labor Relations BoardSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Kountze v. Omaha Hotel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1883
  4. Kitchen v. RandolphSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  5. Richards v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1951

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