DE LA VERGNE REFRIGERATING MACHINE COMPANY v. FEATHERSTONE (1893) - Ballotpedia

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DE LA VERGNE REFRIGERATING MACHINE COMPANY v. FEATHERSTONE

Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: November 16, 1892
Decided: January 9, 1893
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • George Shiras

DE LA VERGNE REFRIGERATING MACHINE COMPANY v. FEATHERSTONE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 9, 1893. The case was argued before the court on November 16, 1892.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Defendant
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 147 U.S. 209
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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