South Carolina v. Seymour

Citations

• 153 U.S. 353
• 14 S. Ct. 871
• 38 L. Ed. 742
• 1894 U.S. LEXIS 2188

Syllabus

<p>On a writ of mandamus in behalf of a State to the Commissiouer of Patents to register, under the act of March 3, 1881, c. 138, a trade-mark used by the State on intoxicating liquors in commerce with a foreign nation, and which the Commissioner of Patents has refused to register, on the ground that the State by its own laws had no authorized trade in liquors outside of its limits, the validity of an ..authority exercised under the United States is not drawn in question; and therefore, in the absence of evidence of the value of the registration,' a judgment of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, denying the writ of mandamus, cannot be reviewed by this court on writ of error, under the act of February 9,1893, c. 74, § 8.</p>