SMITH & GRIGGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SPRAGUE (1887) - Ballotpedia

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SMITH & GRIGGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SPRAGUE

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: October 24, 1887
Decided: November 14, 1887
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

SMITH & GRIGGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. SPRAGUE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1887. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Connecticut U.S. Circuit for the District of Connecticut.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 123 U.S. 249
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: Stanley Matthews

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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