Brooklyn Daily Eagle v. Voorhies
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
In Equity. Suit by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle against Edward W. Voorhies, as Postmaster of the United States Post Office in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has filed a bill in equity seeking to restrain the postmaster of Brooklyn from refusing to accept as second-class mail matter the editions of that paper, if those editions contain the advertisement of a contest in which prizes are to be given for the “best” compositions upon the name of a certain breakfast food. Each essay is to be accompanied when sent in with three labels cut from packages of this food, and the essays are to be judged by three gentlemen of well known and indisputable standing from a literary standpoint.
The defendant has…
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