MEMPHIS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION v. FACTORS, ETC.

No. 77-2545.

441 F.Supp. 1323 (1977)

MEMPHIS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, Plaintiff, v. FACTORS, ETC., INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

December 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Borod, David J. Cocke, G. Breen Bland, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Thomason, Crawford & Hendrix, John J. Thomason, Memphis, Tenn., for defendant; Ervin, Cohen & Jessup, Beverly Hills, Cal., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

WELLFORD, District Judge.

Plaintiff is a Tennessee "not for profit" corporation, and has sued defendant in this diversity action, a Delaware corporation, relative to the right to advertise and promote a statue of the late Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley, a resident of Memphis, died on August 16, 1977, and shortly thereafter plaintiff, in an effort to memoralize him, commissioned one Erick Parks to design and cast a bronze statue of Presley...

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