Ladd v. Oxnard
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a suit in equity by David M. Ladd and Albert M. Hunt, co-partners doing business under the name of United Mercantile Agency, against Edward P. Oxnard, for alleged infringement of a copyright.
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This was a suit in equity by David M. Ladd and Albert M. Hunt, co-partners doing business under the name of United Mercantile Agency, against Edward P. Oxnard, for alleged infringement of a copyright. The complainants,beginning with the year 1890, have published annually a book, entitled the “United Mercantile Agency Credit Ratings,” which contains credit ratings and the financial standing of marble, granite, and stone dealers and manufacturers in the United States and Canada. About N ovember, 1895, the defendant, under the name of the Marble & Granite Exchange Mercantile Agency Company,…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The complainants have published annually for several years a book of credit ratings of the marble, granite, and stone dealers of the United States and Canada. The volume on which this hill was brought is that of 1894, which the case shows was delivered to 179 subscribers, the complainants receiving therefor $5,430. The stipulations between the complainants and subscribers on which the books were issued were that the book delivered to each subscriber was a loan, and was not sold; and that, if any copy was found in any other hands than those entitled to use it by…
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