BUTTERWORTH v. HILL


114 U.S. 128 (1885)

BUTTERWORTH, Commissioner, v. HILL & Others.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 30, 1885.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General [Mr. Frank T. Brown also filed a brief] for appellant.

Mr. William Edgar Simonds for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree on a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont against the Commissioner of Patents, under § 4915 Rev. Stat. That section is as follows:

"SEC. 4915. Whenever a patent on application is refused, either by the Commissioner of Patents or by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon appeal from the Commissioner...

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