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Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Tyler v. Magwire

Tyler v. Magwire. The Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, on appeal, dismissed a petition which sought to have the title to lands held by the defendant, under a patent from the United States, divested, and vested in the complainant. Ero

84 U.S. 253 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Holden v. Joy

Holden v. Joy. 1. The treaty of the 29th-December, 1835, between the United States and the Cherokee Indiáns, was not made in virtue of the act of 28th of May, 1830, authorizing an “ exchange” of lands west of .the Mississippi, for _ the ter

84 U.S. 211 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Branson v. Wirth

Branson v. Wirth. The government, as appeared by the exemplification of the record of a patent, had granted, January 10th, 1818, to A. the northeast quarter of a certain tract of land, in pursuance confessedly of a warrant and location upon

84 U.S. 32 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Intellectual Property 1872

Railway Co. v. Prescott

Railway Company v. Prescott. 1. The.proviso in the 21st section of the act of July 4th, 1864, amendatory of- the act of July 1st, 1862, to aid the Kansas Pacific Bailway in the •Construction of its road, requiring the prepayment of the cost

83 U.S. 603 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1872

Mitchell v. Hawley

Mitchell v. Hawley. •A. patentee of certain machines, whose original patent had still between six and seven years to run, conveyed to another person the “ right to make and use and to license to others the right to make and use four .of the

83 U.S. 544 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Kenicott v. Supervisors

Kenicott v. The Supervisors. 1. A legislative act chartering a railroad company and authorizing the construction of a railroad between certain points, authorized, by its 7th, 8th, and 9th sections, the company to borrow money, and authorize

83 U.S. 452 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Walker v. Henshaw

Walker v. Henshaw. 'Prior to the 9th of July, 1858, when, the President set apart the surplus of „ land which remained after the Shawnee Indians had obtained their complement under the treaty of the United States with them, ratified Novembe

83 U.S. 436 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1872

McNitt v. Turner

McNitt v. Turner. 1. Under the statute of Illinois authorizing the sale of the real estate of. a decedent, and directing the executor or administrator to make out a petition to the county court “stating therein what real estate the said tes

83 U.S. 352 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Davis v. Gray

Davis v. Gray. 1 In this case — where a person who had been appointed receiver of a railroad, to which a large grant of lands had been made by a State, was seeking to enjoin the officers of the State which had declared the lands forfeited,

83 U.S. 203 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Dismissed Intellectual Property 1872

Smith v. Adsit

Smith v. Adsit. 1. "Where 'a complainant setting out a case in the highest State court, for ■ equitable relief against a sale, which a third party had undertaken to make of land, alleged that the party in making the sale had violated an act

83 U.S. 185 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Voorhees v. Bonesteel

Voorhees v. Bonesteel and Wife. 1. Affirmative relief will not be granted in equity upon the ground of fraud unless it be made a distinct allegation in the bill. 2. Nor will'a trust alleged in a bill to exist, be considered as proved when e

83 U.S. 16 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Intellectual Property 1872

Gould v. Rees

Gould v. Rees. 1. Where three elements are claimed in a patent, in combination, the nse of two of the elements only does not infringe the patent. 2. The introduction of a newly-discovered element or ingredient, or one not theretofore known

82 U.S. 187 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1872

Shutte v. Thompson

Shutte v. Thompson. 1. Although the formalities prescribed by the 30th section of the act of Congress of September 2d, 1789 (1 Stat. at Large, 88), authorizing the taking of depositions de bene esse in certain cases and stating the circumst

82 U.S. 151 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1872

Hedrick v. Hughes

Hedrick v. Hughes. 1. The act of Congress of March 6th, 1820, admitting Missouri into the Union, and the act of March 3d, 1823, respecting grants of land to that State, without further grant or patent, vested in the State the 16th section o

82 U.S. 123 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Hutchings v. Low

The Yosemite Valley Case. [Hutchings v. Low.] 1. A party by mere settlement upon lands of the United States, with a declared intention to obtain a title to the same under the pre-emption laws, does not thereby acquire such a vested interest

82 U.S. 77 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Mowry v. Whitney

Mowry v. Whitney. 1. Asa Whitney’s patent of April 25th, 1848, for an “improvement in the process of manufacturing cast-iron railroad wheels,” was for a process, not for a combination. 2. Where only vague and uncertain directions could be g

81 U.S. 620 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Gorham Co. v. White

Gorham Company v. White. I.. The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of a patent for designs contemplate not so much utility as appearance; and the thing invented or produced for which a patent is given is that which gives a peculiar

81 U.S. 511 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Dolton v. Cain

Dolton v. Cain. 1. Under the limitation laws of Illinois which declare in substance “that whoever has resided on a tract of land for seven successive years prior to the commencement of an action of ejectment, having a connected title in law

81 U.S. 472 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Nicolson Pavement Co. v. Jenkins

Nicolson Pavement Company v. Jenkins. An assignment of a reissued patent, reciting the date and number of the reissue, and that'the original patent had been “ given for the term of fourteen years;” reciting that the assignee had agreed to p

81 U.S. 452 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Mowry v. Whitney

Mowry v. Whitney. 1. The ancient mode of annulling or repeating the king’s patent was by scire facias generally brought in the chancery where the record of the instrument was found. 2. In modern'times the court of chancery, sitting in equit

81 U.S. 434 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Dent v. Emmeger

Dent v. Emmeger. 1. Inchoate rights in the Territory of Louisiana, such as those made A.D. 1789, by a concession of the then Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana to Gabriel Cerre, were of imperfect obligation on the United States when suc

81 U.S. 308 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Easley v. Kellom

Easley v. Kellom et al. 1. Where the Land Department of the government, defying an unfounded pre-emption claim in the government lands set up by a person indebted to several persons, proceeds to sell the lands at public auction, as part of

81 U.S. 279 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Armstrong v. Morrill

Armstrong v. Morrill. 1. Judgment in ejectment, in favor of a single plaintiff, sustained, where some counts in the declaration alleged a possession in himself alone, at the time of the ouster, though other counts alleged the possession to

81 U.S. 120 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Paige v. Banks

Paige v. Banks. 1. Where in consideration of an agreement by publishers to pay him a certain sum of money, nnd the performance of specified duties in connection with the publication, a reporter of judicial decisions agreed in 1828 “ to furn

80 U.S. 608 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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