Hubbell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. On December 28,1878, William Wheeler Hubbell filed, in the United States Patent Office, an application for a patent for an improvement in metallic cartridges, and on February 18, 1879, letters .patent No. 212,313 were granted and is- • sued to. him.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. On December 28,1878, William Wheeler Hubbell filed, in the United States Patent Office, an application for a patent for an improvement in metallic cartridges, and on February 18, 1879, letters .patent No. 212,313 were granted and is- • sued to. him. On April 19, 1883, Hubbell, the patentee, filed a petition in the Court of Claims against the United States, alleging that the latter were using his patented methods in circumstances that warranted a claim for compensation. This case was numbered in the Court of Claims as No. 13,793, and was so proceeded in that on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shieas
It is contended, on behalf of the appellant, that we should regard the present case and the case disposed of upon the former appeal, in 171 U. S. 203, as constituting substantially one controversy, and that we should give the appellant the benefit of the new or additional facts which, it is claimed,'were made to appear by the amended findings in the first case. It is claimed, on the part of the United States, that the former decision of this court was a final adjudication of the controversy, that its finality was not affected by the subsequent allowance by the trial court of an appeal from…
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