COOSAYI' HIN. CO· .,. I'ARMERS' KIN. CO.
107'
To dive1't any portion of the property to the payment or any other claim or demand is to that extent to impair the vested right of the mortgagee to have his lien paid and di!lcharged out of the mortgaged property. Some timely observations upon this subject will be found.in the case of Kneeland v. Trust Co., 136 U. S. 89, 10S.up. Ct. Rep. 950. And the conclusion here rea.ched will also be found supported by the text writers. See High, Rec. (2d Ed.) p. 331 et seq.; Beach, Ree. pars. 376. 752i Gluck & B. Ree. pp. 296, 297. Motion denied.
CoOSAW
MIN. Co.
17. FARMERS' MIN. Co. d
al.
(Ci7'cu:U Court. D. South Carolina. June 17, 1892.) brltJ1fC'I'TOlf. BOIro-AS8E8SMl!INT OJ' DULlGII8-AOTIOlf
A lederalcourt, which, on a temporary injunction, requires tbe lr!T!oC of a bond for possible damalles, may. on dissolving the I. njunctlon Itsllif aecide .· what damasres. if any, should be/aid; and It would never send the bond to another jurisdiction to be sueli upon, all onlyln very exceptional oases would . It. send the matter before a jury.
In Equity. Bill by the Coosaw Mining Company against the Farmers' Mining Company and B. R. Tillman and others, constituting the board of phosphate commissiQners of the state of South Carolina. A temporary injunction having been granted and dissolved, defendants now move that the injunction bond be delivered to them .to bring such actions thereon .as they may be advised. Motion denied, and a special master appointed to take testimony as to the damages. J. L. McLaurin, Atty. Gen., and Mower, Mitchell &; Smith, for the motion. McCrady, Sons & Bacot and Smythe & Lee, opposed. SIMONTON, District Judge. Upon filing the bill in this cnse, the court, on the 6th day of March, 1891, granted the prayer of complainant for a temporary injunction. The order for the injunction required the complainant t.o enter into bond, with surety, in the penal sum of $25,000. Such bond was executed. Its condition is that the complainant and its sureties shall pay to the defendants "any and all damages which they may sufter by reason of the injunction, if it !lhall be finally determined that the com plainant in this action is not enti tied thereto.» The order granted leave to the defendants to move for the dissolution of the injunction at any time after eight days' notice. The defendants answered. Notice of motion to dissolve the injunction was made on the tlth October, 1891; amI on the 5th April, 1892, anoruer was made dissolving the injunction. Meanwhile, pending this bill, the defendants B. R. Tillman and others, the board of phosphate commissioners, filed their complaint, with summons, to the court, praying an injunction agailUlt. the vrtilltlut cVlU1Jlainunt. Tht: injunctiou WaI:l granteu, and the
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vol. 51
cause wasthen removed into this court. The complaint, in substance, setout the saine case as was set up in the answer to the bill filed origitially here', and the answer of the Coosaw Mining Company was substantially the same as their bill here. The case presented precisely the same iSsues. At the hearing of the cause so removed the injunction was made perpetual,thus sustaining the position of the present defendants. See 47 Fed. Rep. 225. This decision of the circuit court was carried 011 appeal to the supreme court, was heard thereon, and the circuit decreo was affirmed on the 4th day of April, 1892. See 12 Sup. Ct. Rep. 689. The next day this injunction was dissolved. A motion is now made "that the bond given under the order of 6th March, 1891, be delivered to defendants to bring such actions under the conditions thereof as they may be There can be no question that the court can either decide for itself what damages, if any, should be given upon the dissolution of an injunction, secured by a bond given under its order, or it can deliver the bond to the defendants for the purpose of suit thereon in acourtof.1aw. This court would never send the bond for suit in another juriSdiction, and in very rare cases would it send the bond before l,t from its inception, is in this court. The conduct of the parties is always under its supervision. The character of the questions involved, and the ease or difficulty in reaching a conclusion upon them, can nowhere be as well known as in the court which heard, conliidered, and decided them; The court also can determine whether any further proceedings are necessary; .and may content itself, after fixing eosts on the 'complainant, with an order that no further damages can be recovered against it. RUiJ8eU v. Farley, 105 U. S. 446; In the present case I think it best to follow the course finally decided upon in NnlJello v. James, 5 De Gex, M. & G. 876, quoted and criticised in Russell v. Farley. I do not wish, however, to decide in advance, or to intimate an opinion on, the question whether further damages should be allowed. I think it the better practice, because it is seldom that a chancellotwithout evidence can say whether or not a party has been damaged, or to what extent. It is ordered that the defendants produce before the master such evidence of damage as they may claim, 'with leave to complainant to reply thereto, if it be so advised, and that the testimony so taken be reported td the court. Let J. E.Hagood be the special master in this behalf.
YOUNG
v.
BALTIMORE COUNTY HEDGE &: WlRE FENCE CO.
109
et al. v.
BALTIMORE .COUNTY HEDGE
& WIRE
FENCE CO.
(Oircuit Oourt, D. Maryland. June 21, 1892.) 1.
Patent No. 254,085, JUly 21, 1882, held to be for a wire extending along the base of a hedge near the ground to prevent the passage of small animals before the shoots of the hedge are grown. SAME-NoVELTY.
POR INVENTIONS-LIMITATION Oll' CLAIM-HEDGE FENCES.
2.
Held, that the patent is void for want of patentability, it being old to use suoh a wire to keep tile plant!! in position, and to give the hedge inoreased lateral strength, and it being old to use a wire along the base of an ordinary fence to prevent the passage of small animals.
(SyUabus by the Court.)
In Equity. Bill by Wesley Young and the Maryland Hedge & Wire Company against Baltimore County Hedge & Wire Fence Company for infringement of patent. Bill dismissed. Wood & Boyd, for complainants. G. L. Van Bibber, M.Bailey, and W. F. Mitchell, for respondent. MORRIS, District Judge. The bill of complaint in this case alleged the infringement of four patents. but the bill has been dismissed as toaH except the patent to Wesley Young, No. 254,085, dated July21, 1882. That patent is for an improvement in "plashed hedges." The claim is a narrow one, for a single and simple improvement. The patentee, Young, describes the method of plashing hedge fences as practiced at the date of his application, which he says is by bending over the plant in the line of the fence, the bending taking place in the root, and securing the first plant in its bent position by fastening it to a stake, then a piece of wire is passed under the first plant quite near the ground and crossed and twisted around the next plant, and in like manner around as many succeeding plants as the wire is capable' of holding in their proper relative positions; it being intended that the wire shall cross the plants approximately at right angles to their inclined positions, and so that every plant is held down in its inclined position and in the plane of the fence. In describing this method, which he states was then in use, he says: "Or one. or more of the lines of wire may be stretched first, and the plants .bent down and secured in position by attaching them to the wire." He further says: "The present invention looks to the still further development of this branch 9£ industry, and has for its object to provide a hedge fenCe which from the time it is fiJ;st plashed will present a strong and impassable barriet· to all ordinary stock which is permitted to run at· large, and the propel' growth of which hedge will not be interfered with by the causes ordinarily eXisting. '" * '" In order to give the fence the reqUiSite degree of lateral strength atthe start, I apply a continuous horizontal line or lines of wire or other material along it from end to end, securing the said line or lines t9 the plants by staples, nails or loops or other suitable fastenings, as shown in the by interweaving it with the plants as shown. I preferably apdrawing, ply two lines of Wire, one near the iJppel; ends of the plants are plashed and cut off to the proper height, and one near their base, as repre-