Star Co. v. Press Publishing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Press Publishing Company and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of January, 1914, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term. The judgment restrained the defendant Dirks from furnishing drawings to the defendant corporation and restrained said corporation from employing him or purchasing drawings from him.
1Opinion of the Court
Soott, J.:
The plaintiff and defendant corporation both publish newspapers and may be said to be rivals in business in the sense that they appeal to similar constituencies and adopt similar methods to attract readers. Each publishes a Sunday edition, composed in part of what is termed a comic supplement. For the Sunday comic supplement published by plaintiff Dirks has regularly contributed for a number of years a series of horrible but apparently popular drawings representing the supposititious experiences in varying surroundings of certain nondescripts known as the Katzenjammer Kids. After…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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