Legal Opinion

Vance v. Campbell

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 17, 1862PublishedCited by 68 opinions

Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of Ohio. This suit was commenced in the Circuit Court at "Cincinnati, December term, 1859, by Vance against Campbell, Ellison, and "Woodrow. Judgment for defendants. Writ of error sued,out by plaintiff. The question argued here and the material fact's bearing upon it are fully discussed in the opinion of .the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice 'NELSON.

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States of the southern district of Ohio.

The suit was brought by Vance against the defendants in the court below, for the infringement of a patent for certain improvements in cooking stoves.

The patentee recites in- his specification, that it has been very difficult'heretofore to make the bottom and back plates of the oven sufficiently hot, and equally difficult to prevent the front and top from'becoming too much heated. For this difficulty, he says, he has devised a remedy, which consists in a particular arrangement…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. United States v. ReidSupreme Court of the United States · 1852
  2. Sims v. HundleySupreme Court of the United States · 1847
  3. McNiel v. HolbrookSupreme Court of the United States · 1838

3Cited by68 opinions

  1. McClain v. OrtmayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
  2. Campbell v. HaverhillSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  3. Dunbar v. MyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  4. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Union Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
  5. Gage v. HerringSupreme Court of the United States · 1883

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