Eliot v. Jones

The plaintiff is the president emeritus of Harvard University and is now editing an edition of books being published by Collier & Son, and known and advertised by them as “ The Harvard Classics ” and “ Dr. Eliot’s Eive-foot Shelf of Books,” for which plaintiff receives remuneration from Collier, payable from time to time. The plaintiff at no time has given his consent to the use of his name by the defendants. The defendant E. Milton Jones does business under the name of University Library Extension. In the months of November and December, 1909, the defendants caused to be published in several…