Legal Opinion
Victor Talking MacH. Co. v. George
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 14, 1939No. 6932PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS, Circuit Judge.
In his bill filed in the District Court for the District of New Jersey seeking an injunction and accounting, David Graves George, the plaintiff, alleged that Victor Talking Machine Company, the .defendant, had infringed his common law rights in the words of the song “The Wreck of the Old 97,” which he claimed had been composed by him and reproduced by the defendant upon one of its phonograph records. The defendant denied that the plaintiff was the author of the song. The District Court found that he was its author, and by decree entered March 31, 1933,
enjoined its further…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. v. Wolf Brothers & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. United States & Mexican Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1915
- Nashville Syrup Co. v. Coca Cola Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1914
- George v. Victor Talking MacHine Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Individual Drinking Cup Co. v. ErrettCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1924
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- Eugene A. Wahl and Vibra Screw Feeders, Inc., and Cross-Appellees v. Carrier Manufacturing Co., Inc., and Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1975
- Barry Drayer v. Sidney Krasner, Leonard Miller, H. Hentz & Co., Inc. And Shearson Hayden Stone Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Chicago Board of Education v. Substance, Inc. And George N. SchmidtCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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