Keene v. Wheatley
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
[This was an application by Laura Keene for an injunction to restrain the defendants, Wheatley & Clarke, from the public performance and dramatic representation of a play called “Our American Cousin.”]
1Opinion of the Court
CADWALADER, District Judge.
The comedy called “Our American Cousin” is described by the defendants, in their answer, as a “piece presenting, in suitable situations, those ew entricities usually attributed on -the stage to Yankees.” It was never printed, and has never been published otherwise than through *182dramatic representation. It was composed in England, in 1852, by a dramatic author named Taylor, for performance in London at the Adelphi Theatre, of which Benjamin Webster was the manager. Mr. Taylor in that year sold it, or the right of performing it, to Mr. Webster. Insuperable difficulties…
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