CLUETT v. CLAFLIN

No. 174.

140 U.S. 180 (1891)

CLUETT v. CLAFLIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 11, 1891.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.A. Duncan and Mr. J.A. Skilton for appellants.

Mr. David Tim for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.

A large amount of testimony was taken in this case in the Circuit Court, but all that we find it necessary to consider lies within a very narrow compass. Stripped of its verbiage, this patent consists simply of a shirt bosom bound at its edges and stitched through its binding to the body of the shirt. The custom of binding the cut edges of cloth, either for ornament or...

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