MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
As both parties are citizens of the State of Missouri, the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court can only be sustained upon the theory that the case is one arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
By an act of Congress of July 8, 1870, 16 Stat. 198, 210, § 77, to revise the statutes relating to patents and copyrights, Rev. Stat. § 4937, permission...
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