DAVIES v. KRASNA

Docket No. 28574.

245 Cal.App.2d 535 (1966)

54 Cal. Rptr. 37

ELIZABETH S. DAVIES, as Executrix, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. NORMAN KRASNA, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three.

October 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max Fink, Stanley C. Poster, Jerome Janger, Richard J. Hirsh and Sidney M. Wolf for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp and Arthur Groman for Defendant and Respondent.

Loeb & Loeb, John L. Cole and Alfred I. Rothman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


FORD, J.

The appellant is the executrix of the estate of Valentine Davies, deceased. Mr. Davies filed the action but died before it came to trial. He sought damages for an alleged breach of an implied contract with respect to the use by the defendant, Norman Krasna, of an idea, central theme and dramatic core of a story which Mr. Davies alleged that he had created and thereafter submitted to the defendant. In a second cause of action Mr. Davies sought damages for...

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