Corliss v. E. W. Walker Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
In Equity. Bill by Emily A. Corliss and others against the E. W. Walker Company and others to restrain respondents from publishing a biography and selling a picture of George H. Corliss.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
This suit is brought by the widow and children of George H. Corliss to enjoin the defendants from publishing and selling a biographical sketch of Mr. Corliss, and from printing and selling his picture in connection therewith. The hill does not allege that the publication contains anything scandalous, Libelous, or false, or that it affects any right of property, hut the relief prayed *435for is put upon tlie novel ground that such publication is an, injury to the feelings of the plaintiffs, and against their express prohibi- , ticn.
The counsel for plaintiffs, in argument, put…
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