Belford v. Scribner
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE . NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. The court stated the ease as follows : . This is a suit in equity, brought on the 18th of January, 1884, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Charles Scribner, a citizen of New York, against Belford, Clarke & Co/, .an Illinois corporation, and Michael A. Donohue and William P. Henneberry, citizens of Illinois.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE . NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. The court stated the ease as follows : . This is a suit in equity, brought on the 18th of January, 1884, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, by Charles Scribner, a citizen of New York, against Belford, Clarke & Co/, .an Illinois corporation, and Michael A. Donohue and William P. Henneberry, citizens of Illinois. The bill alleges that the plaintiff is a publisher and bookseller, doing business under the name of Charles Scribner’s Sons, in the city of New…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buatchfoed
The assignments of error filed by the defendants in this court allege that the final decree of the Circuit Court is erroneous (1) becausfe it recites that the hearing was upon the master’s report, with exceptions thereto, when there was no report nor any exceptions thereto before the court at the final hearing; (2) because it finds that the plaintiff is éntitled to damages, when the only remedy in equity is by injunction and an account of profits; (3) because it finds that copyright in the book, the title of which is set forth in the bill, was vested in the plaintiff as proprietor thereof,…
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