SILLMAN v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP.


2 A.D.2d 662 (1956)

Leonard Sillman et al., Respondents, v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Appellant, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 5, 1956


Order reversed and the motion for summary judgment granted in favor of appellant, with $20 costs and disbursements of the appeal to appellant.

The underlying agreement between appellant and National Pictures Corporation did not contain merely a personal covenant against assignment, but clearly indicated, particularly by the language prohibiting the devolution of any rights, that such rights were not assignable. (See Allhusen v. Caristo Constr. Corp.,

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