SIMPSON ET AL. v. WILSON


45 U.S. 709 (1846)

4 How. 709

ANDREW P. SIMPSON, JOSEPH FORSYTH, AND BAGDAD MILLS, APPELLANTS, v. JAMES G. WILSON.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Gilpin and Mr. Westcott, for the defendants below, who were the appellants in this court, and by Mr. Henderson and Mr. R. Johnson, for Wilson.


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

The questions in this case come up on the certificate of a division of opinion in the court below. The judgment of this court in the previous case of Wilson v. Rousseau et al., upon the second question certified in that case, disposes of the first question certified here, and is answered accordingly.

The second question certified involves the point, whether or not the assignment of an exclusive right to...

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