McDonald v. Hearst

DE HAVEN, District Judge.

This is a qui tarn action, brought under section 4965 of the Revised Statutes, to recover the sum of $82,729. The complaint alleges, in substance, that the defendant,, within the period of two years prior to the commencement of the action, without the consent of plaintiff first obtained in writing, and signed in the presence of two or more witnesses, did unlawfully and wrongfully copy, print, and publish at the city and county of San Francisco, in a newspaper known as the Examiner, the material part of a certain copyrighted map of which the plaintiff was then, and is…