Estes v. Leslie

This ease is similar to Estes v. Williams, 21 Fed. Rep. 189, in respect to the right of the orators to the exclusive use *23of the name “Chatterbox” upon their series of juvenile publications in this country. No occasion appears for repeating what was there said. The question of laches is more relied upon here as a defense than it was there. There is a question as to the effect of a decree in favor of the defendants against the orators, entered by consent in the court of common pleas of New York in 1881; and a question whether the use of that name by the defendants upon their publication amounts…