H. C. Cook Co. v. Beecher

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<p>An- action on & j udgment obtained in a patent case is not itself a suit upon a patent, and the Circuit Court, in the absence of diversé citizenship, does not have jurisdiction thereof; and so held in regard to an action, against directors of an insolvent corporation to make'them personally responsible for a judgment recovered in the TJnited States Circuit Court for damages for infringing Letters Patent; nor in this case can tho complaint be construed as 'making such defendants joint tort-feasors with the corporation in'infringing the patent so as ip confer jurisdiction on the court.</p>