Case Name: RYDER v. HOLT
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1888-12-10
Citations: 128 U.S. 525
Docket Number: No. 76
Parties: RYDER v. HOLT.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 525–525

Head Matter:
RYDER v. HOLT.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE ' SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW XORK.
No. 76.
Argued November 14, 1888.
Decided December 10, 1888.
Circuit Court of the United States has no jurisdiction over suits for the violation of a trade-mark if the plaintiff and defendant are citizens of the same State, and the bill fails to allege that the trade-mark in controversy was used on goods intended to be transported to a foreign country.
The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. Arthur v. Briesen for appellant.
Mr. Rowlcmd Gox for appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller
delivered the opinion of the court.
It was stipulated in the Circuit Court that this cause should abide the event of Menendez v. Holt, ante, 514, just decided, and the <;same decree in favor of complainants was, therefore, rendered in this as in that case. But it is now assigned for error that, as defendant and' complainants below were citizens of the same State, and the bill did not allege that the trade-mark' in controversy was " used on goods intended to be transported to a foreign country," Act of March 3, 1881, c. 138, § 11,. 21 Stat. 502, the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction, and the decree must be reversed for that reason. The objection is well taken, and the decree is accordingly ' '
Reversed.