Colgate v. White
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Bill by R. R. Colgate against James T. White & Co. This is a bill in equity to prevent the defendant from publishing in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography facts of complainant’s life obtained from him, and to deliver up and cancel a certain written instrument of subscription to the said Cyclopedia obtained from the complainant by fraudulent misrepresentations.
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In Equity. Bill by R. R. Colgate against James T. White & Co. This is a bill in equity to prevent the defendant from publishing in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography facts of complainant’s life obtained from him, and to deliver up and cancel a certain written instrument of subscription to the said Cyclopedia obtained from the complainant by fraudulent misrepresentations. The bill depends upon diversity of citizenship, and charges that the defendant represented to the complainant that the biography in which he proposes to insert the facts stated was one to which the Congress of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). I think there can be no doubt that Gower gave Colgate to understand that the facts were not to be published in the ordinary biography which is used as a bait to practice upon the vanity of the simple and so procure their money, but was to be used! in a publication issued under the auspices of the United States government. It is significant that Gower does not deny that Colgate used the word “government” in reply to his own questions. Both sides concede that Colgate was extremely unwilling in the first instance to allow his biography to be used, and was…
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- Briges v. SperrySupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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