MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
As the first twenty-nine chapters of "The Minister's Wooing" appeared in the Atlantic Monthly before any steps whatever were taken, either by the publishers or by Mrs. Stowe, to obtain a copyright, it follows that they, at least, became public property.
Mrs. Stowe's copyright of the last thirteen chapters would doubtless have been valid but for the fact that they subsequently...
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