Webster v. Daly, 163 U.S. 155 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over cases appealed from the circuit courts. The case was dismissed.Melville Church, Reasons Why the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in Patent Causes Should Be Restored, 8 Yale L.J. 291 (1899).
This case was related to Brady v. Daly. They arose from the same set of copyright infringement disputes regarding Under the Gaslight by Augustin Daly.
The United States abolished the circuit court system involved in Webster v. Daly in 1912. The modern analog is the district courts.
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