Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA^ This was a bill to compel the recognition by the Postmaster General of the right of the plaintiff corporation to have a periodical publication, known as “Masters in Music,” received and’transmitted through the mails as matter of the second class, and to enjoin defendant from enforcing an order, theretofore made by him, denying it entry as such. This case took the same course as the preceding ones. 31 Wash.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA^ This was a bill to compel the recognition by the Postmaster General of the right of the plaintiff corporation to have a periodical publication, known as “Masters in Music,” received and’transmitted through the mails as matter of the second class, and to enjoin defendant from enforcing an order, theretofore made by him, denying it entry as such. This case took the same course as the preceding ones. 31 Wash. L. Rep. 395.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The first number of Masters in Music was issued in January, 1903, and an. application was immediately made, to the Postmaster General for its admission to the mails as second class mail matter. The application was denied, and plaintiff immediately, and before the issue of another number, filed this bill. The publication purports to be a “monthly magazine,” *107salable at twenty cents per number, and to subscribers. at. two dollars a year. The first number is devoted to.the works, of Mozart and contains a portrait, a biography of four pages,, an essay of ten pages upon his art and thirtyrtwo pages…
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