WASHINGTONIAN CO. v. PEARSON

No. 222.

306 U.S. 30 (1939)

WASHINGTONIAN PUBLISHING CO. v. PEARSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 30, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Horace S. Whitman, with whom Mr. Gibbs L. Baker was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Eliot C. Lovett, with whom Mr. Elisha Hanson was on the brief, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

By this suit, instituted in the District of Columbia, March 8, 1933, petitioner seeks an injunction, damages, etc., because of alleged unauthorized use of a magazine article copyrighted under Act March 4, 1909 (Ch. 320, 35 Stat. 1075; U.S.C., Title 17). Pertinent portions of the statute are in the margin.1 Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus,

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