Dun v. International Mercantile Agency

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

It is not disputed that defendant made use of complainant’s book in preparing its own publications. Thanks to such use, it discovered the names of individuals, firms, and corporations engaged in business, and therefore desirable for inclusion in its hook, which names had apparently not been discovered by the investigations of defendant’s own canvassers, nor found in some other publication. The names thus obtained from complainant’s book aggregated certainly hundreds, possibly thousands.. Was this an unfair use of the complainant’s book? Had this question been presented…