Towle v. Ross

JAMES ALGER FEE, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought suit for injunction against infringement of copyright and for damages against defendants who are employees of the United States and members of the engineering staff of the Bonneville Administration. Prior to the summer of 1938 plaintiff acquired a valid copyright upon a map entitled “Electric Generating Stations and Transmission Lines in the Northwest States”, which has technical data thereon and an index. Certain copies of portions of plaintiff’s map were found in the drafting room of the Bonneville Administration. He, at the request of some…