Agnew v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of trover by Samuel Agnew v. Lawrence Johnson, to recover damages for the conversion of the stereotype plates of Goodrich’s Pictorial Histories of the United States, England, France, and Greece. The plea was noneul., &c.
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Error to the District Court, Philadelphia. This was an action of trover by Samuel Agnew v. Lawrence Johnson, to recover damages for the conversion of the stereotype plates of Goodrich’s Pictorial Histories of the United States, England, France, and Greece. The plea was noneul., &c. The plaintiff, by an agreement with Goodrich, the author, dated February 19, 1842, purchased the exclusive right of publishing, during the existence of the copyright, histories of the above countries, and also of Home. Agnew was to cause them to be stereotyped as soon as they were written, to keep the market…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lewis, J.
The assignment of 23d January, 1846, from Sorin & Ball to Lawrence Johnson, does not include the stereotype plates in controversy; and Mr. Johnson, in his letter of 21st December, 1847, after nearly two years’ time for correcting any errors in that assignment, and when his interest was stimulated by the approaching insolvency of Sorin & Ball, does not pretend that these *378plates were intended to have been included in that assignment, although he makes claim to other plates which he says had been omitted. The letter of Sorin & Ball, of the same…
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