Board of Trade v. Tucker
Board of Trade v. Tucker
Opinion of the Court
[1] The decree for injunction was justified under the decision of the Supreme Court in Board of Trade v. Christie, 198 U. S. 236, 25 Sup. Ct. 637, 49 L. Ed. 1031. It was not appealed from, and the right to issue the injunction is not involved in the appeal now before us. The injunction prohibited defendant from obtaining, using, distributing, etc., “the quotations of complainant, or any of them,” until he shall have acquired the right to receive said quotations:
(a) By contract or purchase from complainant;
(b) With, complainant’s consent from some telegraph company authorized by complainant to distribute said quotations; or
(c) Under a judgment or degree against complainant in a court of competent jurisdiction.
There is no proof that defendant received complainant’s quotations in either of the three ways above indicated.
It is asserted that many of the quotations, which defendant used and distributed, he obtained from some source other than those which complainant sought to protect by this injunction. That circumstance is unimportant, because as to very many of the quotations, which he used and distributed, there is a concession on the brief of his counsel which makes it unnecessary to discuss the testimony. It is there conceded that defendant admitted that he employed a man to visit the office of another broker, who, under a contract with complainant, of the sort considered in the Christie Case, supra, had what is known as the “continuous quotation service.” When quotations thus received by the broker were posted on the blackboard in his office, defendant’s employe noted the last quotation on each option and then telephoned it to defendant, who used and distributed the quotation thus telephoned. After an interval of 10 minutes, defendant’s employé noted and telephoned another quotation, which defendant similarly used and distributed.
With this modification, the order is affirmed. Costs of this appeal to complainant.
Reference
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- BOARD OF TRADE OF CITY OF CHICAGO v. TUCKER
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- Í. Injunction 223—Quotation of Board of Trade Prices—Violation— “Continuous Quotations.” An injunction restraining a broker from obtaining, using, and distributing the quotations of a Board of Trade without acquiring a right to such quotations was not limited in its application to “continuous quotations” defined in contracts with the board’s subscribers as quotations furnished oftener than at intervals of 10 minutes, but was violated where the broker’s employe at 10-minute intervals noted and telephoned to the broker the last quotation posted in the office of a subscriber of the Board, especially where it did not appear that each of such quotations was not one item of the continuous quotations. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. §§ 448-473; Dec. Dig. 223. For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, Second Series, Continuous Quotations.] 2. Exchanges 13—Quotation of Prices—Publication. The posting of quotations furnished by a Board of Trade to its subscribers in the office of a subscribing broker, was not a publication which would terminate the Board’s property rights in the quotations, or authorize a nonsubseriber to use and distribute such quotations. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Exchanges, Cent. Dig. § 16; Dee. Dig. 13. Quotations of prices and transactions on exchanges, see note to Sullivan v. Postal Telegraph Cable Co., 61 C. C. A. 2.] 3. Injunction A proceeding to punish, as for contempt, a violation of an injunction restraining a broker from using the quotations of a Board of Trade, was civil, and not criminal, and the court correctly held that a dual punishment should not be imposed, but one simply directed towards making good to complainant the loss it had sustained from the violation. [Ed. Note.—For other eases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. §§ 502-516, 519-528; Dee. Dig. 4. Injunction In punishing the violation of an, injunction as a civil contempt, the court may reimburse the complainant for the necessary expense of enforcing the injunction; but extravagant .disbursements should not be allowed. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig, §§ 519-528; Dee. Dig. 5. Injunction In punishing the violation of an injunction as a civil contempt, the allowance of complainant’s expenses is a matter resting in the discretion of the District Judge, and unless such discretion has been abused his action will not be disturbed. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. § 517; Dee. Dig. 6. Injunction On a motion to punish the violation of an injunction as a contempt, the successful moving party was entitled to taxable costs, not, however, to be added to the fine and collected by a body execution, but merely to be a money judgment collected in the usual way. [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. § 518; Dec. Dig. ®=»For other eases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes