Public Ledger Co. v. Post Printing & Publishing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; John C. Pollock, Judge. Suit in equity by the Public Ledger Company against the Post Printing & Publishing Company. Decree for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit in equity by the Public ledger Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania, which was engaged in 1917 in publishing in Philadelphia the Public Ledger, a daily newspaper, against the' Post Printing & Publishing Company, a corporation of the state of Missouri, for damages and profits for the infringement by the latter of the alleged copyright of the plaintiff which protected it in the .exclusive right to the serial publication in the United States between August 5 and September 17, 1917, of the installments of the *431manuscript of the book entitled “My Four Years…
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