Houghton v. Payne
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity originally filed in the Supreme Court of the -District of Golumbia by the firm of.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity originally filed in the Supreme Court of the -District of Golumbia by the firm of. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., against the Postmaster General, praying that a certain publication, known as the Riverside Literature Series, be entered and transmitted through the mails as second class mail matter, and for an injunction to restrain the cancellation of a certain certificate of entry, previously issued, allowing such transmission. The answer denied that the Riverside Literature Series constituted a periodical within…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court..
This case depends upon the construction of the following sections of the Post Office appropriation bill of March 3, 1879, 20 Stat. 355, 358:
“Sec. 7. That mailable matter shall be divided into four classes:
*94“ First.. Written matter;
“Second. Periodical publications;
“Third. Miscellaneous printed matter;
“Fourth. Merchandise.”
Matter of the second class is thus described:
“Sec. 10. That mailable matter of the second class shall embrace all newspapers and other periodical publications which are issued at stated…
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