Hogg v. Emerson
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of NeW York.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of NeW York. It was a suit for the violation of a patent-right, and the writ of error was allowed under the seventeenth section of the act of 1836. On the 8th of March, 1834, John B. Emerson, the defendant in error, obtained the following letters-patent, (which were recorded anew on the 5th of March, 1841), viz.: — The United States of America, to all to whom these letters-patent shall come: Whereas John B. Emerson, a citizen of the United States, hath alleged that he has invented…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This is a writ of error brought under some peculiarities which are first to be noticed... It comes here by virtue of the 17th section of the general* patent law of July 4th, 1836. (A Statutes at Large, 124.)
That section grants a writ of error- from decisions in actions on patents, as in ordinary cases, and then adds the privilege of it “in all other cases in which the court shall deem it reasonable to allow the same.” This was doubtless intended to reach suits where the amount in 'dispute was less than $ 2,000, on ae-. count of the importance of the points sometimes raised, and the…
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