Doll v. Blasius

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Doll, Smith, Ryder, and Schweiekert, co-partners, doing business under the firm name of Continental Illustrating Company, brought this suit in the District Court against Blasius for infringement of a copyright granted to them in their partnership capacity for a certain publication. The defendant met the bill of complaint with a motion to dismiss. From a decree dismissing the hill, which was a joint decree against all the partners, Schweiekert, singly and in his own name, filed a petition for allowance of an appeal. The trial court allowed the appeal as prayed for, that…