Legal Opinion
Lewys v. O'NEILL
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 22, 1931PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLSEY, District Judge.
The complaint herein is dismissed with costs, which will include an allowance for counsel fees to all the defendants, as hereinafter fixed and allocated among them.
I. This is a suit in equity based on alleged infringement of copyright, whence arises the jurisdiction of this court.
The plaintiff’s book is in the form of a novel called by her The Temple of Pallas-Athenra, with a subtitle Posterite, and will be hereinafter referred to as The Temple. The plaintiff claims and states underneath the notice of copyright that her book was written in 1917; the printing was begun…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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