JEROME v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION


71 F.Supp. 914 (1946)

JEROME v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION.

District Court, S. D. New York.

October 2, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Brien, Driscoll & Rafterty, of New York City (Arthur F. Driscoll, Milton M. Rosenbloom, and Everett Birch, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Edwin P. Kilroe, of New York City (Edwin P. Kilroe and Julian T. Abeles, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.

Sidney Wm. Wattenberg, of New York City, for Music Publishers Protective Ass'n, Inc. amicus curiæ.

John Schulman and William Klein, II, both of New York City, for Songwriters Protective Ass'n, amicus curiæ.

Leo J. Rosett and Alfred Beekman, both of New York City, for Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., amicus curiæ.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

An application has been submitted by defendant for an allowance of attorney's fees of $30,000, under § 40 of the Copyright Law, 17 U.S.C.A. § 40. This suit for a copyright infringement was tried before me for three days in February 1946. A number of depositions had been taken before the trial. After briefs and proposed findings were submitted and on July 25, 1946, I filed my opinion, findings of fact and conclusions of law, and dismissed...

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