Jordan v. O'Connor
The Superior Court of New York City
Motion to continue an injunction. The action was brought by Louis J. Jordan as owner of a collection of models exhibited in “ Dr. Kahn’s Museum of Anatomy ” against Eugene O’Con-nor, trading as George A. Leavitt & Co., and Louis Strassburger to restrain defendants from selling at auction dilapidated models belonging to Strassburger as belonging to Dr. Kahn’s museum.
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Motion to continue an injunction. The action was brought by Louis J. Jordan as owner of a collection of models exhibited in “ Dr. Kahn’s Museum of Anatomy ” against Eugene O’Con-nor, trading as George A. Leavitt & Co., and Louis Strassburger to restrain defendants from selling at auction dilapidated models belonging to Strassburger as belonging to Dr. Kahn’s museum. The injunction order sought to be continued was as follows : “ It appearing to me satisfactorily by affidavits . . that sufficient grounds for an order of injunction exists, it is ordered that the defendants and each of them,their…
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
The plaintiff owns a collection of specimens, numbering 2,500, valued at $50.000, which has for twenty years been on exhibition in this city and London, under the name of “ Dr. Kahn’s Museum of Anatomy ” and “ Dr. Kahn’s Anthropological Mu*378seum.” The defendant, Strassburger, is the owner of about ioo models, which he has offered at private sale for $400, and is now offering at auction by means, of advertisements and circulars, describing them as “ lately forming the major part of Dr. Kahn’s celebrated museum of Anatomy,” and the object of the suit is not to enjoin the sale, but to restrain the…
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