Legal Opinion
Tompkins v. Halleck
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 15, 1882PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from representing at his theatre in Boston a drama called “ The World,” and for further relief.
It appears from the report of the judge who heard the case that this drama was originally composed in England, where, after being presented, it was sold to one Colville in New York, who caused it to be altered and amended, to suit the presumed taste of an American audience, by one Stevenson. It was successfully represented at Wallack’s Theatre in New York, and was then assigned to the plaintiffs, with the exclusive right to represent the same in the…
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