Black v. Ehrich

The complainants, a publishing firm of Edingburgh, Scotland, bring this suit to restrain the defendants, who are doing busi*794■ness at New York city, from selling a work entitled “The Encyclopaedia Britannica,” which is published by Messrs. R. S. Peale & Co. at Chicago, and from issuing and distributing circulars aiid advertisements introductory of the book, which are alleged by the complainants to be misleading and injurious. The case is now here upon a motion for an injunction pendente lite.

It appears by the pleadings and depositions that prior to"1873 several editions of the Encyclopedia…