Harper v. Holman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was a bill in equity, which averred the following facts: Upon returning from a voyage of discovery, known as the “Norwegian Polar Expedition,” in 189(5, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen prepared a book relating to his voyage, and illustrated the same with many photographs taken in the course of the expedition.
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This was a bill in equity, which averred the following facts: Upon returning from a voyage of discovery, known as the “Norwegian Polar Expedition,” in 189(5, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen prepared a book relating to his voyage, and illustrated the same with many photographs taken in the course of the expedition. This book was written in Norwegian, and was entitled “Farthest North, Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-1896, and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen.” Dr. Nansen sold and assigned this work, together with the illustrations, to…
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
Sixteen causes of demurrer have been assigned to this hill of complaint; but, upon the argument, counsel, considerately assenting that it was unnecessary to burden1 the court *223with all the questions thus raised, agreed that all but the first four assignments should be considered as withdrawn, upon the understanding that the complainants would have leave to move to amend as they might be advised, and that the defendants would be at liberty to renew any of their present objections to the bill, except those now passed upon, and such of them, if any, as should be met and…
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