SAVOY RECORD CO. v. CARDINAL EXP. CORP.


15 N.Y.2d 1 (1964)

Savoy Record Company, Inc., Respondent, v. Cardinal Export Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mortimer G. Levine for appellant.

Thomas R. Levy and Walter Hofer for respondent.

Judges VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and SCILEPPI concur with Judge FULD; Judge BERGAN dissents in an opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND and Judge DYE concur.


FULD, J.

On November 1, 1960 Savoy Record Company, a New Jersey corporation engaged in making phonograph records, signed two letters, addressed to "Armonia E. Ritmo, Via Rimmassa 68, Genoa, Italy".1 In their essential terms, the letters incorporated an understanding by which Savoy was to grant to Armonia the exclusive right to manufacture and market its records in Italy for a period...

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