Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1852
Cunningham v. Ashley - 55 U.S. 377 (1852) U.S. Supreme Court Cunningham v. Ashley, 55 U.S. 14 How. 377 377 (1852) Cunningham v. Ashley 55 U.S. (14 How.) 377 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS Syllabus On the 25th of December, 1824, Cunningham applied to the land office at Batesville, in Arkansas, to become the purchaser of a quarter section of land under a Cherokee certificate which had become vested in him. This application was refused upon the ground that two New Madrid certificates had been laid upon the land in 1820. The right under these certificates was claimed by Ashley. In 1830, Cunningham said that Brumbach had an improvement on the same quarter section, which Brumbach assigned to Ashley. The law sanctioned the division of a quarter section under such circumstances. In 1831, Cunningham claimed a preemption right under the Act of 29 May, 1830. The claims under this act and under the Cherokee float were not inconsistent with each other. In 1838, two...
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Le Roy v. Tatham - 55 U.S. 156 (1852) U.S. Supreme Court Le Roy v. Tatham, 55 U.S. 14 How. 156 156 (1852) Le Roy v. Tatham 55 U.S. (14 How.) 156 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus In a patent for improvements upon the machinery used for making pipes and tubes from lead or tin when in a set or solid state by forcing it under great pressure from out of a receiver through apertures, dies, and cores, the claim of the patentees was thus stated: "What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by letters patent is the combination of the following parts, above described, to-wit, the core and bridge, or guide piece, the chamber, and the die, when used to form pipes of metal under heat and pressure in the manner set forth or in any other manner substantially the same." The circuit court charged the jury "That the originality did not consist in the novelty of the machinery, but in bringing a newly discovered principle in...
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