Stephens v. Cady
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island, sitting as a Court of Equity. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island.
The bill was filed by the appellant in the court below, to restrain the defendant from printing and publishing a map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in violation of the complainant’s copy-right.
The facts are briefly these: The complainant, on the 23d of April, 1831, took out the copy-right of a map, the title of which is as follows: “A Topographical Map of the State of Rhode Island and- Providence Plantations, surveyed trigonometrically and in.detail, by James Stephens,…
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