Butler v. Watkins
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: Butler, of New Orleans, had procured one or more patents for an invention called the “Butler Cotton-tie,” a machine for fastening bales of cotton. There was at the same time a large manufacturing company near Birmingham, England, called “The Patent Nut and Bolt Company,” of which one Watkins was the managing agent.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: Butler, of New Orleans, had procured one or more patents for an invention called the “Butler Cotton-tie,” a machine for fastening bales of cotton. There was at the same time a large manufacturing company near Birmingham, England, called “The Patent Nut and Bolt Company,” of which one Watkins was the managing agent. Watkins being in this country, and at New Orleans, had some negotiation with Butler looking to an arrangement by which the company should largely assume the manufacture of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
We are unable to discover error in the instructions given to the jury by the court below, or in the answers made to the prayers of the defendants, except in a single particular. What the court said may have been inadequate to a full presentation of the case, but the plaintiff asked for no instructions, and he cannot therefore no\v be heard to complain that full instructions were not given. The bills of exceptions bring upon the record only that which was said to the jury, and to that alone can error be assigned.
It is quite true that the suit was not brought upon any contract. The theory of…
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