Legal Opinion

Munson v. Mayor, Alderman and Commonalty of New York City

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 13, 1888No. 160PublishedCited by 16 opinions

APPEALS FBOM THE CIBCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED 'STATES FOB THE SOUTHEBN DISTBICT OF FEW YOBK. This was a bill in equity by Francis Munson against the' Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of tbe City of New York and the comptroller of the city, for the infringement of letters patent granted to Munson on April 2, 1867, for “ new and useful improvements in preserving, filing and cancelling bonds, coupons, certificates of stock, &c.,” consisting, as described in the specification, “ in…

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APPEALS FBOM THE CIBCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED 'STATES FOB THE SOUTHEBN DISTBICT OF FEW YOBK. This was a bill in equity by Francis Munson against the' Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of tbe City of New York and the comptroller of the city, for the infringement of letters patent granted to Munson on April 2, 1867, for “ new and useful improvements in preserving, filing and cancelling bonds, coupons, certificates of stock, &c.,” consisting, as described in the specification, “ in providing a book or other register with pages corresponding in size, style and number with the bonds, coupons,…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gbay

What the plaintiff, in different parts of his specification, calls his “ improvement,” his “ system,” and his “ invention,” consists in providing one or more blank books, resembling common scrap-books, of which each page will hold a bond and its coupons, and has a heading describing the bond, and all the pages are numbered and ruled into spaces, in which the bonds and the coupons, on being presented and- paid, may be pasted in the order of their numbers — the bonds on the successive pages, and the coupons of each bond on the same page with it — or, when any bond or coupon is paid without…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Burt v. EvorySupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. Keszthelyi v. Doheny Stone Drill Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1932
  3. United States Credit System Co. v. American Credit Indemnity Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1893
  4. The LackawannaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1907
  5. Hocke v. New York Cent. & H. R. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903

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