John Church Co. v. Zimmermann

SEAMAN, District Judge.

The bill in this case is founded on an alleged copyright and alleged infringements thereof by the defendant, and the usual discovery is sought in an answer by the defendant, both to allegations and interrogations, oath thereto being waived. The answer is a mere general denial, neither responding to the interrogatories nor stating “the circumstances of which the defendant intends to avail himself by way of defense” (1 Daniell’s Ch. Pl. & Pr. [6th Am. Ed.] 712), nor otherwise complying with the fundamental rule in equity that “he shall answer fully to all the matters of…