Carte v. Duff

The complainant, as a purchaser from William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, British subjects, residing in London, has acquired their right of public representation in the United States of the comic opera “The Mikado, or the Town of Titipu.” Tiie opera was the joint composition of Gilbert and Sullivan, Gilbert being the author of the literary parts and Sullivan of the musical parts. In order, if possible, to protect their property in the opera in the United States they employed George L. Tracey, a citizen of the United States, to come to London and prepare a piano-forte arrangement of the…