Scribner v. Henry G. Allen Co.

Shipman, District Judge.

These are demurrers to the plaintiff’s bills ir equity to restrain the alleged infringement of a copj'right. The matters demurred to are the same in each bill, and the demurrers are, mutalis mutandis, identical. Each bill alleges that the authors of a book entitled “Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States” assigned all tt eir right, title, and interest therein, before publication and before de- - positing a printed title thereof with the proper officer, to Charles Scribner, who then constituted and was the sole member of the firm of Charles Scribner’s Sons,…