Taft v. Stephens Lith. & Eng. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
At Law. On demurrer to petition. For opinion on plea to the jurisdiction, see 37 Fed. Rep. 726.
1Opinion of the CourtBrewer, J.
This is a demurrer to the petition. The action is a qui tam action brought by the plaintiff as informer under section 4963, Rev. St. U. S., to recover the penalty therein named. The petition alleges that the defendant printed and circulated 10,000 copies of a chromo, which is described, putting on each the word “copyrighted,” or some equivalent word. The section provides that “every person who shall in*29sert or impress such notice, or words of the same purport, in or upon any book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving,- or photograph, or other article for which lie has not…
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