Bischoff v. Wethered

Citations

• 76 U.S. 812
• 19 L. Ed. 829
• 9 Wall. 812
• 1869 U.S. LEXIS 1036

Syllabus

<p>1. A judgment recovered in the Common Pleas, at Westminster, England, against a person in the United States, without any service of process on him, or any notice of the suit other than a personal one served on him in this country, has no validity here, even of a primá facie character.</p> <p>2. On a suit at law, involving a question of priority of invention, where a patent under consideration is attempted to be invalidated by a prior patent, counsel cannot require the court to compare the two specifications, and to instruct the jury, as matter of law, whether the inventions therein described are or are not identical. The rule on the subject stated.</p>