Jollie v. Jaques

NELSON,. Circuit Justice.

This is a bill filed to restrain the defendants from an infringement of the plaintiff’s copy-right in a musical composition known as “The Serious Family Polka, &e., arranged by George Loder.” The author assigned his interest in the same to the plaintiff, who, on the 19th of February, 1850, deposited the title of the piece with the clerk of the district court for •the Southern district of New-York, and on the next day the musical composition itself, in pursuance of the act of congress of the 3d of February, 1S31 (4 Stat. 436), for the purpose of securing the copy-right.