Murphy v. Christian Press Ass'n Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Christian Press Association Publishing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of August, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th ■day of May, 1897,…
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Appeal by the defendant, the Christian Press Association Publishing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of August, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an interlocutory judgment entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th ■day of May, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling the defendant’s •demurrer to…
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J. :
This action was brought by the plaintiffs, who constitute the firm ■of John Murphy & Co., to restrain the defendant from selling a prayer book published by it, and known as “A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity,” at lower prices than those prescribed in an agreement between the plaintiffs and the Catholic-Publication Society Company. In 1889. that company owned the. copyright of the book. This is charged in the complaint and admitted in the answer, and we can take-no notice of the communication of counsel for the appellant, in which he asserts that the company did…
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