MacDONALD v. DU MAURIER


75 F.Supp. 655 (1948)

MacDONALD v. DU MAURIER et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

January 14, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Rosenschein, of New York City (Charles S. Rosenschein and Arthur L. Ross, both of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Beekman & Bogue, of New York City, (Arthur E. Farmer, Edward K. Hanlon and Benjamin H. Stern, all of New York City, of counsel), for Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc.

O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, of New York City (Arthur F. Driscoll, of New York City, of counsel), for Selznick International Pictures, Inc., David O. Selznick, David O. Selznick Productions, Inc., and United Artists Corporation.


BRIGHT, District Judge.

This action is one seeking a judgment for an alleged infringement of copyrights. Edwina Levin MacDonald, originally the plaintiff, has died since the commencement of the action and her ancillary administrator has been substituted. In her lifetime she wrote "I Planned to Murder My Husband", a confession story published in this country in Hearst's International Magazine of October, 1924. She incorporated that story in the novel "Blind Windows...

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