DONALLAN V. TANNAGE PATENT CO.
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DONALLAN v. TANNAGE PATENT CO. (Oircuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit. March 13, 1897.) No. 189. APPEAL-DISMISSAL API'ELLA1'i'l"S
An appellant cannot of right dismiss his own appeal; and, when an appeal is dismissed on his motion, he is not entitled, in the absence of special equitable considerations, to have the order expressed to be without prejudice; but where an appeal from an interlocutory order granting a preliminary injunction was so dismissed, the order may state the fact that the dismissill was before any hearing on the merits.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by the Tannage Patent Company against John E. Donallan for infringement of letters patent No. 291,784 291,785, for a process of tanning leather. The circuit court made an order granting a preliminary injunctiorn (75 Fed. 287), and the defendant appealed. The cause was heard on appellant's motion to dismiss its appeal without prejudice. Geo. L. Roberts, James H. Lange, and W. Orison Underwood, for appellant. Frederick P. Fish and Wm. K. Richardson, for appellee. Before PUTNAM, Circuit Judge, and ALDRICH and BROWN, District Judges. PUTNAM, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from an interlocutory order or decree granting a preliminary injunction. The appellant files the fallowing motion: "Now comes the original defendant in the above cause, the appellant before this court, and moves that the appeal taken by him from the interlocutory order or decree of the circuit court, granting a preliminary injunction, be dismissed. without prejudice to any proceedings in the circuit court, or to the right of the defendant to take any subsequen,t appeal, and without prejudice to the questions which may be raised by such subsequent appeal If· laWfully taken, but with costs of the appeal to the appellee."
The appellee does not object to the dismissal of the appeal, but it does object to the qualifying expressions asked f()ll'. An appellant cannot as of right dismiss his own appeal. U. S. v. Minnesota & N. W. R. Co., 18 How. 241, 242. That ordinarily, on a dismissal on his own mOltion, the appellant is not entitled to an order expressed without prejudice, follows from what is said in the case cited, at page 242, that usually the court will not allow such a dismissal if the appellant intends at some future time to bring another appeal. How very cautious the supreme court usually is to shut out presumptions of any qualificatiorn in connection with such orders appears from U. S. v. Griffith, 141 U. S. 212, 11 Sup. Ct. 1005. Where, after a hearing, a cause is disposed of by the court on appeal, for some reason not touching the merits, it is now well settled that the judgment should usually show that it is without prejudice. So, on his O'Wn motion to dismiss, an appellant may 79F.-25
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sometimes show inadvertence or mistake or some other special reason which may entitle him to equitable'consideration and a special order. Butwe have no suggestion of any such exceptional matter here. We have no judicial knowledge of anything except what we have stated, and that there has been no hearing by us 0'Il the merits. under our expressions in Gamewell Fire-Alarm Telegraph Co. Municipal Signal Co., 9 C. C. A. 450, 61 Fed. 208, 209, and in Marden v. Manufacturing Co., 15 C. C. A. 26, 67 Fed. 809, the appellant is not, in any event, sure of all he desires to reserve, is for him to consider. As he moves to dismiss his appeal of his own volition, we have no occasion whatever to aid him, under the circumstances Olf the case, either by any special order, or by any expressions of opinion. We will therefore adopt the usual order entered on these motions in the supreme court and here, adding to it sufficient to advise the circuit court of what appears on our records, that there has been no hearing on the merits of this appeal. On the J;llortion of the appellant, and before any hearing on the merits, it is ordered that this appeal be dismissed, with the costs of this court for the appellee, and that a mandate issue forthwith.
= NEW YORK SECURITY & TRUST CO. v. LOUISVILLE, E. & ST. L. C. R. CO. et al. CLARKE v. HOPKINS et aL (CIrcuit Court, D. Indiana. 1.
March 18, 1897.)
RAILROAD MORTGAGES-PRIORITY OF JUDGMENT FOR DEATH
Los!!. A judgment against a railroad company for a death loss occurring In the operation of the road cannot be regarded as a necessary operating expense, and Is not entitled to priority of payment over a mortgage upon that ground.
2.
SURETY IN SUPERSEDEAS BOND-PREFERENCE OVER PRIOR MORTGAGE.
When a surety signs a supersedeas bond without requiring any indemnity for so doIng, he must be held to have done so on the personal credit of the principal, and is not entitled, upon the affirmance of the jUdgment, to preference over a prior mortgage upon the property of the principal.
In Equity. On demurrer to answer to intervening petition. Miller & Elam, for petitioners. William L. Taylor, for receivers. BAKER, District Judge. On July 17, 1890, the petitioner recovered judgment for $9,000 and costs against the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad Company. The judgment was recovered for a death loss arising from the negligence of the railroad company in causing the death of the petitioner's testator, who, at the time of the injury resulting in death, was a passenger on a train on said railroad. The railroad company sued out a writ of error to the supreme court of the United States, and procured a supersedeas upon filing a bond in the penal sum of $12,000, signed by the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Railroad Com-