West Publishing Co. v. Edward Thompson Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
In Equity. Bill by West Publishing Company against Edward Thompson Company to restrain defendant from infringement of complainant’s copyrights and for accounting for profits. Bill dismissed, ■without costs.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
The complainant is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Minnesota, which conducts, at St. Paul, in that state, a business of large extent, embracing all steps in the preparation, editing, publishing, printing, and distributing of law publications, in the nature of reports, digests, text-books, and kindred works of that character. The present corporation was organized upon the 1st day of November, 1882, and succeeded to the rights of a partnership known as the West Publishing Company, which had been formed in 1879, to conduct the business of John B.…
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