Hughes v. West Publishing Co.

The circuit court of Cook county sustained a general demurrer to the bill of complaint. Complainant elected to stand by his bill. Thereupon the court entered a final decree dismissing the bill for want of equity, from which the complainant, William T. Hughes, has prosecuted this appeal.

The bill of complaint, after setting forth at some length the scholastic and professional attainments of complainant, as well as his devotion to an effort to classify the body of the English law so as to make its study more scientific than was possible under prior publications, alleged that he devised a key…