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SMITH v. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY

No. 62 Civ. 2462.

273 F.Supp. 870 (1967)

Carol Crosswell SMITH, Plaintiff, v. LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY and Edith Patterson Meyer, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 16, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendant Little, Brown & Co.; Edward C. Wallace, Marshall C. Berger, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

McLEAN, District Judge.

This is an action for plagiarism of plaintiff's uncopyrighted, unpublished manuscript. The plagiarism occurred in a book entitled "Pirate Queen" by Edith Patterson Meyer, which was published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1961.

Mrs. Meyer was never served with process, hence this action was tried against Little, Brown alone in May 1965. Plaintiff has begun a separate action against Mrs. Meyer in Connecticut which is...

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