FAUST v. TOOLE

No. CA-5654.

502 So.2d 1134 (1987)

Rhoda FAUST v. Thelma TOOLE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

January 14, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian M. Begue, New Orleans, for Rhoda Faust, plaintiff-appellant.

John L. Hantel, Gregory O. Currier, New Orleans, for John Geeser, Executor of the Estate of Thelma Toole, and for, Kenneth Holditch, defendants-appellees.


BARRY, WILLIAMS and ARMSTRONG, JJ.

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff Rhoda Faust from a decision of the trial court finding that she had not entered into an oral contract with Thelma Toole for the publication of a manuscript to which Toole owned the copyright.

Thelma Toole was the mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Kennedy Toole. Through Mrs. Toole's untiring efforts, her deceased son's only published novel, A Confederacy...

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