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SMITH v. PAYNE

No. 481.

194 U.S. 104 (1904)

SMITH v. PAYNE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1904.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Tracy L. Jeffords, with whom Mr. Charles F. Moody and Mr. E. Van Buren Getty were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John G. Johnson and Mr. Henry H. Glassie, special assistants to the Attorney General, for appellee.1

MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiffs are the publishers of several different series of novels under the names of The Columbia Library, The Bertha Clay Library, The Magnet Detective Library, The Medal Library, The Undine Library, The Eden Series, The Arrow Library, and some others. The books of these series are apparently of an inferior class of literature, and are numbered consecutively; but the only thing to indicate that they are issued...

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