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IMITATOR BEARDED MORE WAYS THAN ONE AS HOUSE OF DAVID OBTAINS INJUNCTIONNEW YORK. May 24—'.R' Beyond peradventure, to take words right out of Federal Judge John M. Woolsey's mouth, there can be no copyright on the grow.ng of beards.“From time immemorial,” said the court, “beards have been in the public domain. Any man, if so minded, may -without being subject to challenge, legal or equitable—not only grow- such beard as he can, but may purposely imitate another’-facial shrubbery, even to the f*x-tent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have caught his fancy.”Judge Woolsey was ruling in the case of the House of David of Benton Harbor, .Mich, where beard grow’ing is an art —against Louis Murphy of Spring Valley, 111., the proprietor of a bearded baseball team. The House of David sought—and the court granted—an injunction to stop Murphy from continuing this practice, t.he House of David c'a ming prior rights to the use of beards on ballplayers.The court found nothing wrong in the fact that the Murphy boys wore beards, but held that the use of uniforms bearing the legend “House of David” was indication “beyond perad-veRture that the defendant (Murphy) is actuated by a desire not only unfairly to ava l hirrself of the quaint appearance of the plaintiff’s team, but to masquerade as the plaintiff’s team and thus unfairly compete with it.”
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Thu, May 24, 1934
Page 11
Full Page
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