A bill in equity was filed in the U. S. Circuit Court, at Boston, in April last, to restrain, by decree and order of the Court, the unlawful publishing and use of a pamphlet printed and issued by E. J. Arens, which contained, for the most part, matter pirated from the copyrighted works of Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy; about two pages under the head of "Metaphysical Alphabet" being plagiarized from a translation of "The History and Life of the Rev. John Tauler." Sometime later, another pamphlet having appeared differing but little from that first sought to be enjoined, the bill was amended to include this second piracy.
Answer was filed by Mr. Arens alleging that the copyrighted works of Mrs. Eddy were not original with her, but had been copied by her, or by her direction, from manuscripts originally composed by Dr. Quimby: further stating, that he had not published nor distributed any of the books complained of for more than a year past.
Testimony was taken on the part of Mrs. Eddy, the defendant Arens being present personally, and by counsel showing that the sworn answer of Arens in regard to his not having distributed any of said books within a year past was wholly untrue, and also showing the gross and wholesale piracy, committed on the copyrighted books of Mrs. Eddy as set forth in the bill of complaint.
