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CHAMBERLAIN v. FELDMAN

300 N.Y. 135 (1949)

Thomas G. Chamberlain et al., as Successor Trustees under The Will of Samuel L. Clemens, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. Lew D. Feldman, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 29, 1949

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan Hyman for appellant.

Alexander S. Andrews, Edward J. Willi, Cecil L. Head and Maurice R. Cheyette for respondents.

LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS, CONWAY, DYE, FULD and BROMLEY, JJ., concur.

DESMOND, J.

In 1876, Samuel L. Clemens, under his pen name of "Mark Twain", wrote a story entitled "A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage", and in the same year offered the manuscript to William Dean Howells, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, for publication. There followed, during the same year, some correspondence between Twain and Howells, in which was discussed an unusual project which the author had in...

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