GREEN V. CITY OF LYNN.
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It is further ordered that the complainant and all other parties in
proper pro rata thereOf, and shall be entitled to have execution thereof.
interest have leave to apply to the court for such other and further orders as may be necessary, from time to time, to carry this decree into full effect, and that the defendant pay all costs of this suit." For the purpose of awarding the relief to which the complainant is entitled, the decree appealed from is reversed, at the costs of the appellee, with directions to the circuit court to enter the decree herein prescribed. and otherwise to proceed in the cause in accordance with this opinion. GREEN v. CITY OF LYNN, MASS. (Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit. No. 240. ApPEAL AND ERROR-Tum OF TAKING PROCEEDINGS.
April 1, 1898.)
Under Act March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 829, c. 517, § 11), an appeal to Ule circuit court of appeals· must be taken within six months after the entry of the decree sought to be reviewed. Held, that the filing of the petition for appeal, and assignments of error, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court within the statutory period, was not sufficient.
Appeal from the Oircuit Oourt of the United states for the District of Massachusetts. This case was heard In the circuit court upon the pleadings and proofs; and thereupon a final decree was 'entered on February 23, 1897, for the com· plainant, decreeing letters patent, reissue No. 4,372, dated May 9, 1871, to Nelson W. Green, for Improvement in methods of constructing artesian wells, to be a good and valid patent, and that the complainant recover from the defendant, as profits from its infringement of said patent, $11,425.87, with interest thereon from the date of the master's report to the date of the entry of the final decree, amounting to $508.45, and costs .of suit, amounting to $2,407.52, and also decreeing letters patent No. 218,875, dated August 26, 1879,to Nelson W. Green, for Improvement In water-supply system for cities, etc., to be void for want of novelty, and that the blll be dismissed as. to that patent. The defendant, the city of Lynn, appealed from this decree .of the circuit court; and its appeal was duly entered in this circuit court of appeals, and Is here pending, being numbered and entitled: No. 220. City of Lynn v. Green, 34 C. 0. A. 684, 93 Fed. 988. The complainant, Nelson W. Green, also appealed from the decree of the circuit court, and his appeal was duly entered in thi.s circuit court of appeals, being nnmbered and entitled: No. 240. Nelson Vi'. Green v. City of Lynn. This report relates only to the appeal of Nelson W. Green, No. 240. The record upon the appeal of Nelson W. Green was tiled and the case docketed January 21. 1898, and was heard February 12, 1898, on motion to dismiss the appeal.
Bowdoin S. Parker, for appellant. Robert F. Herrick and Guy Cunningham, for appellee. Before WEBB, ALDRICH, and BROWN, District Judges. PER OURIAM. We are of the opinion that this appeal was not taken within six months after the entry of the decree sought to be reviewed,. as required by the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 82!}. c. 517, § 11), and that for this reason we have no jurisdiction thereof. The date of the entry of the decree in the circuit court was February
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24, 1897. The six-months period expired August 2'4, '189,7. ,The petition for an appeal, with the assignment of errors, was filed in the office of :1he clerk of the circuit court August 17; 1897:'. Nothing further was done within the six-months period. December 11, 1897, the followi'ng indorsement' was made upon the petition: "Memorandum.This appeal is allowed, although I doubt whether it was seasonably perfected. W. L. Putnam, U. S.Circuit,Judge." On the same day Judge Putnam signed a 'citation dated December 11, 1897, and approved an appeal bond dated November 2, 1897. In Barrel v. Transportation Co., 3 Wall. 424, a petition for an appeal had been filed in due time in the office of the clerk of the circuit court.' Nevertheless the court said: "The filing of it In the clerk's office, even If It could be regarded as addressed to the clrcua cQurt, would be of no avail, unless accompanied by an allowance of an appeal by that court."
See, also, Pierce v. Cox, 9 Wall;:786. Though the supreme court has often said that sigQing a citation or 8\>proving a bond is equivalent in law to the allowance of an appeal, it has never said, so far as we can discover, that an allowance in someforni could be dispensed with, nor intimated that the limitation of time could be disregarded,; aria. aJI,ow;ance made after its 'expiration be effectual. The act of March 3, 1891, by its provisions recognizes the necessity for an allowamce; and the uniform practice of filing both the petition and the allowance before the expiration of the statutory period seems- to be in accol,'dance with the views of the, supreme court as to the essentirul requirements' which must be complied with before an l1ppeal"cl'tnbel!ll1id to be "taken." In Farrar v. Churchill,J35 U. S. 609, 10 Sup. Ct. 771, it is said: "And so, when a cross appeal Is allowed by a justice of this court, the petition and order of allowance must be filed In the court below, In order to the due taking of the cross appeal, under the statute."
, See, also, Credit Co. v. Ry. Co., 128 U. S. 258, 261, 9 Sup. Ct. 107; Edmonson v. Bloomshire, 7 Wall. 306; Evans v. Bank, 134 U. 13.330, 10 Sup. Ct. 493; Brooks v. Norris, 11 How. 20,1; The Dos Herma'nos, 10 Wbeat.306; Seymour v. Freer, 5 Wall. 822; Yeaton v. Lenox; 7 Pet. 220; The Enterprise, 2 Curt. 317, Fed. Cas. No. 4,497; Warner v. Rail-w:ay Co., 4 C. C. A. 670, 54 Fed. 920, 922. The appeal is dismissed, and the costs of this court are adjudged to the appellee." TOURTELOT v. FINKE.
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