Hills & Co. v. Hoover
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Sustaining Motion for a New Trial.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
This is a suit in assumpsit, instituted June 18, 1903, to recover penalties, half to the United States under section 4965 of Revised Statutes [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3414], which provides that in case of infringement of copyright for engravings, cuts or prints, the defendant shall “forfeit one dollar for every sheet of the same found in his possession * * * one-half thereof to the proprietor and the other half to the use of the United States.”
Prior to issuing this writ in assumpsit, the plaintiff, on the sixth day of December, 1902, issued a writ of replevin] and the…
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