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EUREKA COMPANY v. BAILEY COMPANY (1871)

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EUREKA COMPANY v. BAILEY COMPANY
Term: 1870
Important Dates
Argued: April 11, 1871
Decided: May 1, 1871
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

EUREKA COMPANY v. BAILEY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1871. The case was argued before the court on April 11, 1871.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Manufacturer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 78 U.S. 488
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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