Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1868
Railroad Company v. Shurmeir - 74 U.S. 272 (1868) U.S. Supreme Court Railroad Company v. Shurmeir, 74 U.S. 7 Wall. 272 272 (1868) Railroad Company v. Shurmeir 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 272 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MINNESOTA Syllabus 1. The meander lines run in surveying fractional portions of the public lands bordering upon navigable rivers, are run, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the banks of the stream, and as the means of ascertaining the quantity of the land in the fraction, and which is to be paid for by the purchaser. 2. Congress, in providing, as it does, in one or more acts relating to the survey and sale of public lands bordering upon rivers -- that navigable rivers, within the territory to be surveyed should be deemed to be public highways, and that where the opposite banks of any stream, not navigable, should belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof should become common to both -- meant to enact th...
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Agawam Company v. Jordan - 74 U.S. 583 (1868) U.S. Supreme Court Agawam Company v. Jordan, 74 U.S. 7 Wall. 583 583 (1868) Agawam Company v. Jordan 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 583 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MASSACHUSETTS Syllabus 1. In a suit in chancery under a patent, evidence of prior knowledge or use of the thing patented is not admissible unless the answer contains the names and places of residence of those alleged to have possessed a prior knowledge of the thing and where the same had been used. 2. The defense "that the patentee fraudulently and surreptitiously obtained the patent for that which he knew was invented by another" is not a Page 74 U. S. 584 sufficient defense to a charge of infringement unless accompanied by the further allegation that the alleged first inventor was at the time using reasonable diligence in adapting and perfecting the invention. 3. The inventor who first perfects a machine and makes it capable of useful operation is entitled to the patent. 4....
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