Wooster v. Crane & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order granting a preliminary injunction restraining the infringement of copyrights in certain elementary arithmetics. The case made by the bill, and which the proofs submitted on the motion for the injunction tended to sustain, is this: The defendant, Lizzie E. Wooster, is the author of the books and has the legal title to the copyrights. The equitable tide, however, is in the complainant, Crane & Co., by virtue of a written contract with Wooster whereby, before the copyrights were completed, she transferred to that company the exclusive…
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