Spears v. Flynn

WAKTY, District Judge.

A bill was filed in this cause by the complainants, none of whom are residents of this district, against several nonresident defendants and one resident defendant, for infringement of a copyright. Service of process was had upon all of the defendants within this jurisdiction, and the-nonresident defendants now move to dismiss the cause as to them because the act of 3d March, 1887, as corrected by the act of 13th August, 1888, provides that “no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other…