MORGAN ENVELOPE CO. v. ALBANY PAPER CO.

No. 254.

152 U.S. 425 (1894)

MORGAN ENVELOPE COMPANY v. ALBANY PERFORATED WRAPPING PAPER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Melville Church and Mr. Charles E. Mitchell, (with whom was Mr. J.B. Church on the brief,) for appellant.

Mr. Esek Cowen for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.

Prior to the inventions covered by the patents in this case, toilet paper had been put up in packages of sheets cut to a convenient size, sometimes attached together by a wire, or in cylindrical rolls of continuous length, either perforated transversely at proper intervals for the convenient detachment of the sheets, or in similar rolls not perforated, but designed to be cut by a device having a sharp edge, to...

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