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credited on the debt. No provision is made for the surplus, and apparently no surplus is anticipated. Under these circumstahces, I fix the :!\Mount of the aupersedeaa bond at $14,000.
ApPLETON
it al.
fl. ECAUBERT.
(Circuit Court, E. D. New
York. March 12,1891.)
DBPOSITIONS-CONSIDERATION 011'· EXOEPTIONS.
Where in a suit in the circuit court of the United States under Rev. St. U. S. 5 4918, to have an interfering patent declared void, a special examiner, duly appointed, is taking depositions in Washington to be used in the suit, the examina.tion will not be stopped on motion for the court to pass on exceptions to the evidence, so as to save expense. It is the rule of the court to allow the exceptions to be noted by the examiner so they may go to the supreme court in the record in case of appeal from the rUling of the circuit court thereon.
In Equity. Bill to avoid interfering patents. Church & Church, for complainants. Francis ForbeB, for defendant. LACOMBE, Circuit Judge. This is a suit in equity, brought under section 4918, Rev. St. U. S., which provides "that whenever there are interfering patents * * * the court [in such suit] * * * may 'l.djudge and declare either of the patents void in whole or in part," etc. A special examiner to take testimony in the city of Washington; D. C., was duly appointed, and on the 27th and 28th days of January one William Burke, an examiner in the patent-office, was examined on behalf of the complainants, but not cross-examined; his further examination, to:gether with that of other witnesses, being adjourned to await the determination of the motion now before the court. The examination of the witness Burke is directed to occurrences in the patent-office before the issue of the patent, and it is contended by the defendant that such testimony is collateral, irrelevant, and not pertinent to the issues raised in this case. It is the intention of the complainants, upon the completion of the deposition of Burke, to take further testimony of a similar character, and in the same way, viz., by depositions of witnesses called to testify before the special examiner. The defendant applies for an order directing the suppression of the deposition of Burke, already taken, and further directing "the complainants or their counsel to desist from further questions of a similar character." The theory of the defendant is that, because the testimony which it is proposed to take" will consume considerable time in the taking, it would be a saving of expense to the parties to have the questions passed upon by the court prior to such examination." And, further, that it would be "just and fair to the defendant to pass upon the materiality of the questions propounded on the direct examination before the upportu-
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cross-examine the witness Burke has passed, thus enabling the defendar.it,if the court shall decide adversely to his. contention, tocrOSBexamine the said Burke fully, andalao the other witnesses who may be produced, to show what occurred in the patent-office." No authority for any such practice is shown. On the contrary, there is express authority of the supreme court condemning it. Blease v. Garlington, 92 U. S. 1. Undoubtedly the method of taking testimony in equity cases in the federal courts is expensive, and frequently produces voluminous records, filled with 'a great deal of testimony which any court to which. it may be presented will disregard; bqt that system, cumbrous though it be, seems to have been expressly devised for a specific end, namely, that the record should be made so full that the court of last resort may not be compelled to send an equity case back for a new hearing. A historical review of this practice will be found in the Cited supra, and need notb' repeated here. It is sufficient to say that under it the examiner is required to note the exceptions, but cannot decide upon their validity, and must take down all the examination in writing, and send it to the court with the objections noted; and when depositions in equity are taken according to the acts of congress, or otherwise under the rules, the same method applies. When the testimony is reduced to writing by the examiner, or the deposition is filed in court, further exceptions may be there taken. "Thus," say the supreme court, "both the exceptions and the testimony objected to are all before the court below, and come here upon the appeal as part of the record and proceedings there. If we reverse the ruling of that court upon the exceptions, we may still proceed with the hearing, because we have in our possession the rejected testimony." If the defendant's objections in this ease were sustained, and his motion' granted, and the supreme court should reach the conclusion that this court erred in such determination, it would have to remand the cause, in order that the suppressed deposition and the additional proof which the complainant desires to offer might be taken. That is what was done in Connecticut v. Penrurylvania, 5 Wheat. 424, which case was decided before the promulgation of the rules; but, as it is one of the objects 'of the sixty-seventh rule, in its present' form, to prevent the necessity for any such practice, defendant's'mo;. tion must be denied.
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BlilMSLEY et al. v. MYERS etal. TUCHMAN V. WELCH, County Attorney, etc. YOUNT v. SAME. M. SCHANDLER BOTTLUi'G CO. ti.' WELCH, County Attorney, etc., et al. WOLLSTEIN et al. v. Wlj:LCH.SAMUELS et al. 1). IRISH, County Attorney, etc; BELL et al. v. BLAIR, County Attorney, etc. SCHUTT et 01,. v·. NEVISoN,County 'Attorney, etc. STORY et 01,. v. NEVISoN,County Attorney, etc.,et al. MARSHALL et 01,. 11. SAME. (Circuit Court, D.KwnsaB. Februat')' 18,1811L) ; L INTOXIOATINGLIQUORS-ORIGINAL PACKAGES,....INJUNCTION.
Complainants' bill for injunction, filed in the circuit court ot the l1nited Ststea, alleged that they were the agents of liquor dealers living in another state, and, as SUCh, were engaged in selling in Kansas liquors in the original packages in which they were imported by their principals; that by civil and criminal proceedings del' the prohibitory law of Kansas defendants were seeking to break up and destroy complainants· business in violation of their rights under the federal constitution; and it prayed that they be. restrained from further proceedings in the premises. There was no allegation that defendants were insolvent. Held, that complainants have an adequate remedy in an action at law for damages. The proceedings instituted by defendants being criminal in their nature, a oourt of eqUity has no jurisdiction to restrain them by injunction.
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INJUNCTION-WHEN LIES-eRIlIIINAL PROCEEDINGS.
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SAlIIE-STA\' OJ' PROCEEDINGS IN STATB CoURT.
Rev. St. U. S. § 720, which provides that "the writ of injunction shall not be granted by any oourt of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a state, "with one exception mentioned, is not repealed or in any wise affected by seotion 197\1, which. declares tbat every person Who, under color of any statute of any state, SUbjects any citizen of the United States to the dllprivatioD of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the constitution and laws of the United States, shall be liable to the person injured in an action at law or suit in equity.
In Equity. On the 15th of July, 1890, Hemsley & Linbocker filed in this court a bill in equity against Myers a!J sheriff, and Irish as county attorney, of Riley county, and R. B. Spillman as judge of the district court for the twenty-first judicial district of Kansas, which includes Riley county. The bill alleges, in substance, that the complainant Hemsley, as the agent of Glasner & Barzen, (who are not made parties,) liquor dealers doing business at Kansas City, Mo., and citizens and residents of that state, was selling intoxicating liquors, as such agent, at Manhattan, Kan., in the basement of a building rented for his principals for that purpose from his co-complainant as agent for the owner. "That he commenced business in said place on the 21st day of June, 1890, and that up to the 3d day of July, 1890, he had sold in the neighborhood of $300 worth of liquors at wholesale prices, among which WEJre about forty cases of beer, containing twenty-four bottles each, about one hundred packages of whisky, each containing one pint, and sundry packages of beer, each containing four bottles, securely boxed and sealed in pine boxes. That no other kind of packages except these mentioned were received by him, and that no liquors were sold by him except in the origas they were. shipped' to him by and Barzen, and inal as received by. him." That on the 3d of July, the defendant Irish, as county· attorney, presented. to the defendant Spillman, as dis·