Legal Opinion
Ambler v. Choteau
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 22, 1883No. 128PublishedCited by 52 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a suit in equity, and the case made by the bill may be stated as follows: —
Ambler, the appellant, and one R. M. Whipple, invented an improved mode of manufacturing gas from petroleum, for which they were about to apply for patents, and being desirous of securing each to the other one undivided half of what they were doing, entered, on the 24th of May, 1869, into an agreement of copartnership to effect' that object. The third article of the agreement was as follows: —
“ Article Third. — R. M. Whipple shall have the exclusive and entire ‘business management’ of the same, so as to include…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ambler v. WhippleSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
3Cited by52 opinions
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