MUNSON v. MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (1888)

MUNSON v. MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
	Term: 1887
Important Dates
	Argued: February 2, 1888
	Decided: February 13, 1888
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

MUNSON v. MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 13, 1888. The case was argued before the court on February 2, 1888.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 124 U.S. 601
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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 liberal.