Wetmore v. Scovell
New York Court of Chancery
The bill, was filed for a perpetual injunction against the defendants’ printing, publishing, circulating or in any manner, either by writing or by any other manner, making public or disposing of certain letters written by the complainant.
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The bill, was filed for a perpetual injunction against the defendants’ printing, publishing, circulating or in any manner, either by writing or by any other manner, making public or disposing of certain letters written by the complainant. It appeared by the bill that the complainant held a responsible situation as an officer of the customs in New York, under the United States ; and that, previous to the occurrence of the matters embraced by the bill, he had been on terms of personal intimacy and confidence with one Charles F. Mitchell; and also that, in consequence thereof, the complainant,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Vice-Chancellor :
The object of the bill in this cause is t° restrain the defendants, by injunction, from printing, publishing, circulating or in any manner making public any letters written by the complainant to one Charles F. Mitchell, between the first of December eighteen hundred and forty and the twentieth of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one or any letters written during that period by the complainant to James N. Reynolds or Marshall 0. Roberts or written by any person or persons whomsoever to the complainant; and from parting with the possession of any such letters or making…
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