 The Encyclopædia Britannica Company had acquired all the rights to the encyclopedia in America.In addition, D. Appleton & Company claimed that the 4 volume supplement used material from "Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography".To avoid further litigation, the suit against Saalfield Publishing was settled in court "by a stipulation in which the defendants agree not to print or sell any further copies of the offending work, to destroy all printed sheets, to destroy or melt the portions of the plates from which the infringing matter in the Supplement as it appears in the "Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica" has been printed, and to pay D. Appleton & Co. the sum of $2000 damages."