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MacDONALD v. DU MAURIER

No. 390.

144 F.2d 696 (1944)

MacDONALD v. DU MAURIER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

August 18, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Rosenschein, of New York City (Charles S. Rosenschein and Arthur Leonard Ross, both of New York City, and Herman Schner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant.

Beekman & Bogue, of New York City (Benjamin H. Stern, Edward K. Hanlon, and Harry Buchman, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of copyright. The plaintiff, appellant here, wrote a story entitled "I Planned to Murder My Husband" which was published in Hearst's International Magazine for October 1924 and copyrighted. Later she expanded the story into a novel entitled "Blind Windows," published and copyrighted in 1927. In 1938 the appellee published a book entitled "Rebecca" of which Daphne Du-Maurier (named as a defendant in the present action...

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