WASHINGTONIAN PUB. CO. v. PEARSON

No. 8473.

140 F.2d 465 (1944)

WASHINGTONIAN PUB. CO., Inc., v. PEARSON et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided January 17, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Horace S. Whitman, of Washington, D.C., with whom Mr. Gibbs L. Baker, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Eliot C. Lovett, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MILLER, EDGERTON, and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.


EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This suit for copyright infringement has been here before. Appellant was the owner of a magazine called The Washingtonian. Its issue for December 1931 contained among other things an article by Rixey Smith entitled "The Mills of the Gods." This issue carried a notice of copyright. With this issue appellant's magazine ceased publication. Appellees Pearson and Allen afterwards paid Smith the $50 which appellant had agreed but failed to pay...

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