Turner v. Century House Publishing Co.

In this action the plaintiff seeks damages and an injunction against the defendants for alleged wrongful appropriation of the literary property of the plaintiff in plaintiff’s unpublished manuscript entitled “ American Silver Flatware of the Victorian and Edwardian Period ”. Defendant, Gf. L. Freeman, has written and defendant, Century House Publishing Co., Inc., has published a book entitled “ Victorian Silver ’ ’. Plaintiff alleges this book was copied from his manuscript in violation of the plaintiff’s common-law copyright in his unpublished work.

The plaintiff is a free-lance writer who…