Liberty Life Assurance Society v. Heralds of Liberty of Delaware, Inc.

The Chancellor.

In passing upon the motion for a preliminary injunction, I shall dismiss from consideration all suggestions of a right on the part of the defendant corporation based on the alleged ownership by it of a copyright of the so-called plan under which the two corporations here involved operate. The complainant contends that the so-called plan is not lawfully the subject of copyright. The defendants insist that it is. Let the controversy upon the question of law involved upon that point be as it may, it yet does not appear clearly from the affidavits exactly what the nature and extent…