George Moulton Carpenter
How Judge Carpenter decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Carpenter treated the failure to stop and listen at a partially obstructed railroad crossing as a failure of due diligence.
“The duty of the plaintiff was to stop, to look, and to listen.”
In a collision dispute, Carpenter placed the burden on the vessel owner asserting that the other vessel changed course.
“On this issue, whether she did so change her course, he has the affirmative and the burden of proof.”
Carpenter confined patent claims to their specific methods when the broader function was already present in the prior art.
“it must be confined to the specific methods used to produce the main result which is the general function of the patented machine”
Procedural preferences
Carpenter required a removal petition based on local prejudice to allege the prejudice itself as a fact, not merely the petitioner's belief.
“in the absence- of a specific averment of the prejudice, there is no evidence» whatever in the papers to bring the case within the act providing for removal.”
He declined to use an earlier patent decree as support for interim relief when validity had not actually been litigated in that proceeding.
“The decree, indeed, was made establishing the patent, but that decree was founded on the constructive admission of the equity of the bill, which is implied in filing the plea.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“This demurrer must therefore be overruled, and the respondents or: dered to answer over.”
“it follows that the appeal must be dismissed.”
“The bill will be dismissed with costs.”
“The bill will lie dismissed with costs.”
“The claim is invalid, for want of novdlty, and the bill must be dismissed.”
“There will he an order that the fund he paid to the libelant, after deducting the fee chargeable by the clerk.”
“The exception will be sustained.”
“I therefore conclude that the respondents do not infringe, and that the bill must be dismissed.”
“The bill will therefore be dismissed, with costs of the respondents.”
“An order will he made that the libel he dismissed, with costs, unless the libelant shall within 10 days discontinue as to one action, or so amend the libel as to strike out one of the claims.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
No case-level electronic docket record survives in the reviewed archive for Carpenter's tenure, so no caseload mix, duration, or motion-timing summary is available.
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