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FILMVIDEO RELEASING CORP. v. HASTINGS

No. 75 Civ. 2248 (HFW).

446 F.Supp. 725 (1978)

FILMVIDEO RELEASING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. David R. HASTINGS, II, as Administrator with Will annexed of the Estate of Clarence E. Mulford, Defendant, and David R. Hastings, II, and Peter G. Hastings, as Trustees of the Inter Vivos Trust and of the Testamentary Trust Created by Clarence E. Mulford, Intervenors.

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

March 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Gotbetter, New York City, for plaintiff.

Burns, Jackson, Miller, Summit & Jacoby, New York City by Herbert P. Jacoby, New York City, of counsel, for defendant and intervenors.

OPINION

WERKER, District Judge.

Following a two-day bench trial and certain preliminary rulings, and pursuant to stipulation among the parties, this declaratory judgment action comes before the Court for decision on an issue of contractual interpretation arising out of two agreements, concluded in the 1930s, concerning the right to produce motion pictures based upon copyrighted "Hopalong Cassidy" stories. After careful consideration of all of the testimony...

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