Supreme Court of New Jersey October 5, 1887 (Aronson v. Baker)

The complainant seeks, by this suit, to prevent the defendant from depriving him of his rights in certain literary property. The complainant claims to hold the exclusive right to exhibit or produce, for gain, in the United States, an operetta called "Erminie," and he charges the defendant with having produced, before a public audience in Trenton, in October last, an operetta entitled, "Robert