WILEY v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO.

No. 21026, S.

31 F.Supp. 568 (1940)

WILEY v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

February 15, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Courtney Moore and James Naylor, both of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Frederick Leuschner and Richard H. Graham, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.


ST. SURE, District Judge.

Plaintiff, author and writer of fiction, seeks an injunction and damages against defendant, basing his suit upon the common law ground of "unfair competition." Plaintiff claims that he created a humorous negro character named "Wildcat" around which he wrote numerous stories published in magazines and books, and which was also used in the making of six 2-reel motion pictures. The stories proved popular, a valuable source of income to their...

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