Greene v. Bishop
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a bill in.equity praying that the respondent [William Bishop] might be restrained from selling, or exposing for sale, ■copies of a certain book entitled “Covell’s Digest of English Grammar,” and that he might be ordered to render an account of the copies already sold.
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This was a bill in.equity praying that the respondent [William Bishop] might be restrained from selling, or exposing for sale, ■copies of a certain book entitled “Covell’s Digest of English Grammar,” and that he might be ordered to render an account of the copies already sold. The bill alleged the complainant [Samuel S. Greene] to be the author and proprietor of a certain book or tseatise on the structure of the English language called “Greene’s Analysis”; and of another, entitled “Greene’s First Lessons in Grammar,” — both secured by copyright; that the respondent, in violation of the…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Twelve exceptions are taken by the respondent to the report of the master. Excluding the eleventh, which deserves a. separate consideration, all the residue may conveniently be divided into three classes. First, such as merely express dissatisfaction with the report in the form of general objections to the conclusions of the master upon the evidence, or to the results arrived at by him, and are in. substance and effect nothing more than an appeal from the determination of the master to the court to revise and reverse his decision, or rather to determine the matters…
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