MARTIN v. STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY


126 A.2d 238 (1956)

Joseph H. MARTIN, Appellant, v. STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

October 25, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Willard, Jr., and Clarence W. Taylor, Hastings, Lynch & Taylor, Wilmington, for appellant.

William E. Taylor, Jr., Wilmington, for appellee.

SOUTHERLAND, C. J., and WOLCOTT and BRAMHALL, JJ., sitting.


SOUTHERLAND, Chief Justice.

The principal question in this case is whether the doctrine of impossibility or "frustration" excused the defendant from contractual obligations to the plaintiff.

The facts are these:

Prior to October 3, 1946, Joseph H. Martin, plaintiff below, was the president and owner of all the capital stock of Star Publishing Company, the principal business of which was the printing and publishing...

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