Photoplay Pub. Co. v. La Verne Pub. Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suits by the Photoplay Publishing Company against the Da Verne Publishing Company, Incorporated, and the Central Press Company, Incorporated, and against Frank T. Eastlack and others.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
The legal merits, or lack of merit, of this case, depends upon a distinction which is not a little difficult to state. In any business activity, the one who has created, or is the first to discover, a special field which he occupies alone or is striving to cover, resents as a wrong the intrusion of any one else upon his chosen field. This feeling is SO' general, if not universal, that it must have some basis in the principles of what is called natural justice. The first comer feels that he has as much right to what he has created or discovered as the patentee has to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- United States v. SteffensSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Columbia Mill Co. v. AlcornSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Lawrence Manufacturing Co. v. Tennessee Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Manufacturing Co. v. TrainerSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co. v. Goodyear Rubber Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
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