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SMITH v. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY

No. 266, Docket 29994.

360 F.2d 928 (1966)

Carol Crosswell SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant, and Edith Patterson Meyer, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin L. Schwartz, New York City, for appellee.

Horace S. Manges, New York City (Gabriel Kaslow, Marshall C. Berger, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Before SMITH, HAYS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff alleges that defendants' preparation and publication of a book called Pirate Queen which was signed by Edith Patterson Meyer infringed plaintiff's common law copyright on an unpublished manuscript called Pirate Queen of Connaught. Defendant Meyer was not served with process. Jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship. The district court held defendant Little, Brown &...

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