Shook v. Rankin
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
[This was a bill in equity by Sheridan Shook and others against Arthur McKee Rankin and others.] Complainants’ bill alleged that prior to February 1, 1875, a dramatic composition or play, entitled “Les Deux Or-phelines,’' was designed and composed in the French language by Adolph D’Ennery and Eugene Cormon, residents and citizens of France.
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[This was a bill in equity by Sheridan Shook and others against Arthur McKee Rankin and others.] Complainants’ bill alleged that prior to February 1, 1875, a dramatic composition or play, entitled “Les Deux Or-phelines,’' was designed and composed in the French language by Adolph D’Ennery and Eugene Cormon, residents and citizens of France. N. Hart Jackson, a resident of the United States, became the owner by purchase and assignment of the original manuscript, for' representation in the United States. Before February 1, 1875, Jackson, with the consent of D’Enuery and Cormon composed and…
1Opinion of the Court
DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge.
It seems to me that the complainants are entitled to an. injunction to prevent the defendants from performing the work which has been translated from the French of D’Ennery and Cor-mon by N. Hart Jackson into English, and adapted by him for representation on the stage in this country.
The court can go no farther in deciding a motion of this kind than the proofs of the case clearly warrant. What are the facts established here beyond controversy? They are these: D'Ennery and Cormon were the authors oí a drama in the French language called “Les Deux Orphelines”; Jaekson…
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