State Comptroller v. Hooker

This is an amicable submission to the Superior Court, under the statute authorizing it, of a question arising upon an agreed statement of facts. These facts are substantially as follows :—

The defendant was, in the year 1871, and for several years before had been, and continues now to be, the reporter of judicial decisions of the state, and up to the time of the passage of the act to be cited had been the sole and absolute owner of all the volumes of the Conñecticut Law Reports *333published by him, including the copyright of the same. The General Assembly, in the year 1871, passed an act…