Agnew v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of trover by Samuel Agnew v. Lawrence Johnson, for the conversion of four sets of stereotype plates of Goodrich’s Pictorial Histories of the United States, England, France, and Greece. The plea was non cul. The case was tried before, and was reviewed in this Court. See report in 5 Harris 373, &c.
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Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of trover by Samuel Agnew v. Lawrence Johnson, for the conversion of four sets of stereotype plates of Goodrich’s Pictorial Histories of the United States, England, France, and Greece. The plea was non cul. The case was tried before, and was reviewed in this Court. See report in 5 Harris 373, &c. The case was, briefly, as follows:— Agnew, by an agreement with Goodrich, dated February 19, 1842, purchased the exclusive right of publishing the histories above mentioned, which Goodrich was to prepare. Agnew was to have them…
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The opinion of the Court was delivered hy
Woodward, J.
All the material questions in this case were decided when it was here before. That Johnson was not a purchaser of the stereotype plates for value and without notice—that his title could not rise higher than the rights of Sorin & Ball—and that as against them the plaintiff had, under the several articles of agreement, an interest as part owner unconditionally, and the right to the remaining interest in the plates on performing the conditions specified in the agreements, were points very expressly ruled in the opinion of Mr. Justice Lewis. It…
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