[1][2] Mrs Gee had been on good terms with her step-son (who was also Reverend Pritchard) for numerous years and had corresponded.
However, they ceased to be on good terms and Pritchard sought to publish the letters.
[5] Eldron LC held that "the Plaintiff (Mrs. Gee) had sufficient property in the original letters to authorise an injunction, unless she has by some act deprived herself of it".
[6] He quoted Lord Chancellor Hardwicke in Pope v Curl "for at most the receiver has only a joint property with the writer".
He said, "The question will be, whether the bill has stated facts of which the Court can take notice, as a case of civil property, which it is bound to protect".