FREDERICK FELL PUBLISHERS, INC. v. LORAYNE

No. 75 Civ. 3472.

422 F.Supp. 808 (1976)

FREDERICK FELL PUBLISHERS, INC., Plaintiff, v. Harry LORAYNE et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

September 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred F. Koller, Jr., New York City, for plaintiff.

Arrow, Silverman & Parcher, P. C., New York City, for defendant Lorayne, by L. Peter Parcher, Howard G. Leventhal, New York City, of counsel.

Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, New York City, for defendants Stein & Day, Inc., The Literary Guilding, Book Digest and Ballantine Books, Inc., by Roger Bryant Hunting, Jeremy Nussbaum, New York City, of counsel.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.

On May 15, 1956, plaintiff and defendant Harry Lorayne ("Lorayne") entered into an agreement which granted to plaintiff exclusive world publication rights to a memory book to be written by Lorayne. This agreement contained a provision prohibiting Lorayne, without the consent of plaintiff, from participating in the publication of any similar work which would tend to interfere with or injure sales of...

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