Dodd v. Smith

Citations

• 144 Pa. 340
• 22 A. 710
• 1891 Pa. LEXIS 618

Syllabus

<p>(a) Plaintiffs, the owners of the copyright of E. P. Roe’s novels, published a cheap paper edition which they sold to the trade at 50 cts., and a fine cloth-bound edition, sold at $1.50. Defendants bought a “ large consignment ” of the cheap paper edition, bound the books in cloth in imitation of the plaintiffs’ cloth-bound edition, and sold them to the trade at 40 cts. to 45 cts.:</p> <p>1. When defendants had sold about sixty-six thousand copies, as above, the plaintiffs filed a bill in equity for an injunction restraining their sale of the cheap paper edition, re-bound and re-issued in imitation of the cloth-bound edition published „by the plaintiffs, and for an account. A preliminary injunction was properly refused.</p>