National Button Works v. Wade
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Motion to Dismiss Bill for Want of Jurisdiction. The complainant is a Pennsylvania corporation; defendant a citizen of New York, doing business in the Southern district, but a resident of the Eastern district, of that state. He was “found” in the Southern district, and there served with process. The suit is for infringement of a patent.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
Subsequent to the passage of the act of 1887, and prior to the decision of the supreme court in Re Hohorst, 150 U. S. 659, 14 Sup. Ct. 221, applications such as this, when made upon like facts, were uniformly granted in patent causes in (his circuit, and the decided preponderance of authority in other circuits approved such a disposition of them; the act of 1887 being construed as operating in restriction of jurisdiction. The opinion in the Hohorst Case has been held to apply to all patent causes by Judge Wheeler in Smith v. Manufacturing Co., 67 Fed. 801, and by Judge…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- In Re HohorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Donnelly v. United States Cordage Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1895
- Smith v. Sargent Manuf'g Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1895
- Union Switch & Signal Co. v. Hall Signal Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1895
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- Lewis Blind Stitch Co. v. Arbetter Felling Mach. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1910
- Consolidated Fastener Co. v. Columbian Fastener Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1896
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