Oliver v. Saint Germain Foundation
District Court, S.D. California
1Opinion of the Court
DAWKINS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, under the trade name of Borden Publishing Company, charge that defendant corporation and certain individuals have plagiarized and infringed the copyright of the book entitled “A Dweller on Two Planets”, the property of complainants. They pray for injunction, a decree sustaining the copyright and its infringement by defendants, for an accounting of profits, for damages, and the impounding of all copies of the offending book to be finally destroyed.
For defense, defendants made a general denial, coupled with pleas of limitation under state statutes and laches…
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