Local Law Cases: Injunction Against Local Publishers: The Court of Chancery, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Kay, an application was made for an injunction in the action Upton V. Moody Brothers. The plaintiff was represented by Mr. H. C. Pincent (instructed by Messrs. Barlow, Smith, and Pinsent of Birmingham). Mr. James Upton, of Baskerville Works Cambridge Street, is the plaintiff and Messrs. Moody Brothers, of Needles Alley, Birmingham, printers, are the defendants. The plaintiff has for many years published the Birmingham A.B.C. Railway Timetables and Directory, and the defendants last month commenced the publication of a timetable upon the same system, which the plaintiff considered to be an infringement of his copyright: On the writ being served the defendants admitted the infringement, and consented to the injunction being granted. Mr. Pinsent stated that the parties had agreed upon a sum to be paid by the defendants for damages and costs. His Lordship granted a perpetual injunction against the defendants, restraining them from infringing plaintiff’s copyright.
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920