LEE ENTERPRISES v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX

No. 15705.

303 S.E.2d 702 (1983)

LEE ENTERPRISES, INC., etc. v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

May 25, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steptoe & Johnson, Robert M. Steptoe, Jr., and Steven F. Brines, Clarksburg, for appellant.

Campbell, Woods, Bagley, Emerson, McNeer & Herndon, Milton L. Herndon, Huntington, and W. Nicholas Reynolds, Ashland, for appellee.


MILLER, Justice:

This is an appeal by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, d/b/a Twentieth Century-Fox Television (hereinafter Fox), from a summary judgment entered against it and in favor of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, d/b/a WSAZ-TV (hereinafter WSAZ). At issue is a written contract involving the license for telecasting the M*A*S*H television series. The particular conflict is whether the contract contained an ambiguity as to the term of the agreement.

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