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Root Vs. Railway Company

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1881

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  4. Dean Vs. Mason US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1857
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  8. Root v. Railway
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  9. Company - 105 U.S. 189 (1881) U.S. Supreme Court Root v. Railway
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  10. Company, 105 U.S. 189 (1881) Root v. Railway
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  11. of these acts, however, was any jurisdiction conferred upon the courts of the United States in equity. In Livingston v. Van
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  12. of the federal courts in granting injunctions under the patent law, mentioning two instances -- one the case of Morse v. Reid
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  13. the other Whitney v. Fort
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  14. In the case of Sullivan v. Redfield
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  15. of the United States of cases of copyright. It was under that provision of the act of 1819 that the case of Stevens v. Gladding
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  16. citing Colburn v. Simms
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  17. And this Court has held, in Watts v. Waddle
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  18. United States exclusive. It was under the act of 1836 that the question arose for the first time in Livingston v. Woodworth
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  19. machine was in operation. This rule in relation to the profits recoverable in such suits was followed in Dean v. Mason
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  20. The important case of Seymour v. McCormick
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  21. Accordingly, it was held in Corporation of New York v. Ransom
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  22. How. 487, where the rule in Seymour v. McCormick
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  23. his case after proof of infringement merely, he was entitled only to nominal damages. It was also applied in Jones v. Morehead
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  24. In Rubber Company v. Goodyear
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  25. In Packet Company v. Sickles
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  26. Wall. 611, which was an action at law, the rule established in Seymour v. McCormick
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  27. as was said by the Court in the case of Suffolk Co. v. Hayden
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  28. Page 105 U. S. 199 In Packet Company v. Stickles
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  29. The doctrine of this case was reiterated in Burdell v. Denig
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  30. was required to account for the Page 105 U. S. 200 profits he had made, according to the rule in Mowry v. Whitney
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  31. the present suit arose while the act of 1870 was in force, and are determinable under it. In the case of Birdsall v. Coolidge
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  32. best illustration in a comparison between two cases, both of which were decided at the October Term, 1877, Elizabeth v. Pavement
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  33. Company, 97 U. S. 126 , and Marsh v. Seymour
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  34. as when it is shown that the use of his invention produced a definite saving in the process of a manufacture. Mowry v. Whitney
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  35. of equity cannot give a decree for profits by way of damages or as a punishment for the infringement. Livingston v. Woodworth
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  36. of profits by putting in unconscionable claims for personal services or other inequitable deductions. Rubber Company v. Goodyear
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  37. damages in an action at law for any loss which the plaintiff could have established by proof. The cases of Marsh v. Seymour
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  38. Page 105 U. S. 204 In Parks v. Booth
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  39. that for the complainant's time lost in attending to the suit. Interest on profits was, on the authority of Silsby v. Foote
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  40. record shows that the bill was filled in April, 1871, before the expiration of the term of the patent. Hendrie v. Sayles
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  41. This appears to be the only case of the kind, until the present, that found its was into this Court. Eureka Co. v. Bailey
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  42. question may have existed in reference to it previously was settled in the courts of the United States by Goodyear v. Day
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  43. Orr v. Merrill
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  44. or even to confuse the boundaries between them, as it is alleged was done by the decision in the case of Nevins v. Johnson
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  45. as fixed by the common law. And the doctrine applies in patent cases as well as others. This Court said in Parsons v. Bedford
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  46. The rule was repeated in Fenn v. Holme
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  47. be inequitable that he should make a profit out of his own wrong. As was said by Vice-Chancellor Wigram in Colburn v. Simms
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  48. equitable grounds for the intervention of the court, is a question, as was said by Lord Chancellor Brougham in Parrott v. Palmer
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  49. The supposed exception in cases of mines seems to rest upon a dictum of Lord Hardwicke in Jesus College v. Bloom
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  50. but the reference is to the case of Bishop of Winchester v. Knight
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