DESNY v. WILDER

Docket No. L.A. 23892.

46 Cal.2d 715 (1956)

299 P.2d 257

VICTOR DESNY, Appellant, v. BILLY WILDER et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 28, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milo V. Olson and Frank DeMarco, Jr., for Appellant.

Pacht, Ross, Warne & Bernhard, Isaac Pacht and Gordon Stulberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

O'Melveny & Myers, W.B. Carman, William W. Alsup, Everett B. Clary, Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., Louis W. Myers, Sidney Justin and Melville B. Nimmer for Respondents.

Loeb & Loeb, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Cruikshank, Jones & Gershon, Herman F. Selvin and Harry L. Gershon as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment rendered against him in this action to recover the reasonable value of a literary composition, or of an idea for a photoplay, a synopsis of which composition, embodying the idea, he asserts he submitted to defendants for sale, and which synopsis and idea, plaintiff alleges, were accepted and used by defendants in producing a photoplay.

The case as presented to us is perplexed by manifold problems, some...

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