Dudley v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort. Writ dated September 18, 1885. The declaration was as follows: “And the plaintiff says that he is, and has been for many years, a compiler and publisher of directories of cities, towns, and counties in this Commonwealth and elsewhere; that by care, attention, skill, and faithfulness, and after great labor and expense, he had acquired a large number of subscribers among business men and other people, throughout the cities and towns of Bristol county, and elsewhere in…
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Tort. Writ dated September 18, 1885. The declaration was as follows: “And the plaintiff says that he is, and has been for many years, a compiler and publisher of directories of cities, towns, and counties in this Commonwealth and elsewhere; that by care, attention, skill, and faithfulness, and after great labor and expense, he had acquired a large number of subscribers among business men and other people, throughout the cities and towns of Bristol county, and elsewhere in this Commonwealth, for ‘ The Bristol County Directory,’ which the plaintiff has compiled and published biennially for many…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The plaintiff in his declaration does not allege that, by the acts of the defendant, he has been deprived of the benefit of any contract he had made, or of any property in existence and in his possession, or that the defendant published his directory for 1885 as a directory prepared and published by the plaintiff; and does not bring his case within such decisions as Lumley v. Gye, 2 El. & Bl. 216, Marsh v. Billings, 7 Cush. 322, Thomson v. Winchester, 19 Pick. 214, Blofeld v. Payne, 4 B. & Ad. 410, Morison v. Salmon, 2 M. & G. 385, and Sykes v. Sykes, 3 B. & C. 541.
He does not allege that he…
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