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BACKUS v. GOULD ET AL.

48 U.S. 798 (1849)

7 How. 798

ELEAZER F. BACKUS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. WILLIAM GOULD AND DAVID BANKS, WHO SUE AS WELL FOR THE UNITED STATES AS THEMSELVES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

They were all fully argued, by Mr. James Bayard and Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Wendell, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This cause is brought here by a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

An action of debt was brought by Gould and Banks to recover certain penalties alleged to have been incurred by the invasion of the copyright of the plaintiffs in twelve volumes of law reports, to wit, nine volumes of Cowen's Reports and...

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