Supreme Court Drops Suit Against Griswold

The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a claim that Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School, had pirated the idea for a tax service from Dr. J. Irizzary Y. Puente, a tax expert from Washington, D.C.

In filing the $3,000,000 damage suit against Griswold and Harvard University, Puente had charged that the Law School Bulletin of February 1955 had published some of his ideas, crediting them to William Sprague Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School.

Puente's Attorney charged that his client had related his plans for a foreign tax service to Griswold in a private conversation, and that their subsequent publication in the Law School Bulletin had caused Puente to suffer financial losses on his own tax volumes.