U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois, 1879

Sayles v. Grand Trunk Ry. Co.

Sayles v. Grand Trunk Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · Decided July 1, 1879 · Drummond
21 F. Cas. 605
Sayles v. Grand Trunk Ry. Co.

Opinion of the Court

[DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge,

held that the court had jurisdiction of a bill filed against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, and based on an infringement of a patent committed by that corporation in Michigan; service having been made on an agent of the corporation at its office in the Northern district of Illinois, although neither that agent nor the business transacted in that office had any connection with the infringement.]

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