Market Quotations

A collection of market quotations is a species of property which a court of equity will protect by injunction; [1896] 1 Q. B. 147; Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Commission Co., 10.3 Fed. 902; Board of Trade of Chicago v. Hadden-Krull Co., 109 Fed. 705; Illinois Commission Co. v. Telegraph Co., 119 Fed. 301, 50 C. C. A. 205; even though communicated to many persons in confidential relations to the board of trade owning such collection; Board of Trade of City of Chicago V. Stock Co., 198 U. S. 251, 25 Sup. Ct. 637, 49 L. Ed. 1031, This property right is not surrendered by permitting subscribers te whom they are communicated to post such quotations upon blackboards in their places of business; Mc Dearmott Commission Co. v. Board of Trade, 146 Fed. 961, 77 C. C. A. 479, 7 L. R. A. (N. S.) 889, 8 Ann, Cas. 759. Even if the information concerned illegal acts, it is entitled to the protection of the court; Board of Trade of City of Chicago City of Chicago v. L. A. Kinsey Co., ISO Fed. 607, 64 C. O. A. 669, 69 L. R. A. 69.