Gilmore v. Anderson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Bill by Laura E. Gilmore against John R. Anderson and Horatio Alger.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This suit is brought upon tbe copyright of a book entitled “The Life of James A. Garfield,” written by James It. Gilmore under the name of Edmund Kirke, against infringement by a book entitled “From Canal-Boy to President,” written by the defendant Alger, and published by tbe defendant Anderson. Since the bearing the defendants have moved to reopen the case for newly-discovered evidence to show that Gilmore cwas not designated by Gen. Garfield as bis special biographer. Inasmuch as neither the validity of tbe copyright nor the right of the oratrix to relief depends at all upon the fact of…
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