Andrew P. Simpson, Joseph Forsyth, and Bagdad Mills v. James G. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up on a certificate of division in opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the. United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. Wilson was the complainant below, who filed a bill, and obtained an injunction against Simpson, Forsyth, and Mills. After sundry proceedings in the case, Forsyth put in a plea, and a rule was obtained, that- the plaintiff should show cause why the injunction should not be dissolved.
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This case came up on a certificate of division in opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the. United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. Wilson was the complainant below, who filed a bill, and obtained an injunction against Simpson, Forsyth, and Mills. After sundry proceedings in the case, Forsyth put in a plea, and a rule was obtained, that- the plaintiff should show cause why the injunction should not be dissolved. Upon argument, the court dismissed the rule, and the case was set down for hearing by consent of parties ; the complainants not…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The'questions in this case come up on the certificate of a division of opinion in the court below. The judgment of this court' in the previous case'of Wilson, a. Rousseau et al., upon the second question certified in that case, disposes of the first question certified here-, and is answered accordingly.
The second question certified involves the point, whether or not the assignment of -an exclusive right to make and use, and to vend to others, planing-maphines-, within.a given territory only, authorizes the assignee to vend elsewhere, out of the said territory, the plank, boards, and other…
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