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INDEPENDENT FILM DISTRIB. v. CHESAPEAKE INDUSTRIES

No. 55, Docket 24643.

250 F.2d 951 (1958)

INDEPENDENT FILM DISTRIBUTORS, Ltd., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CHESAPEAKE INDUSTRIES, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 2, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kramer, Marx, Greenlee, Backus & MacMahon, New York City (Lloyd F. MacMahon and Roger W. Langsdorf, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

James L. O'Connor, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Harry J. Scanlan, New York City, substituted attorney for defendant-appellant.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, MOORE, Circuit Judge, and LEIBELL, District Judge.

LEIBELL, District Judge.

By virtue of two assignment agreements one dated June 29, 1950, and the other June 18, 1952, plaintiff-appellee claims to have acquired the common law copyright to two motion picture photoplays entitled "The Galloping Major" and "Treasure Hunt." Subsequently, by agreements dated August 2, 1951 and July 18, 1952, plaintiff assigned the distribution rights of these two photoplays for the Western Hemisphere to Souvaine Selective Pictures, Inc...

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