RICE v. PENGUIN PUTNAM, INC.


289 A.D.2d 318 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 98

ADAM Z. RICE, Respondent, v. PENGUIN PUTNAM, INC., Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided December 10, 2001.


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, the cross motion is denied, and the complaint is dismissed.

The late William J. Caunitz was a retired New York City police detective and the bestselling author of six novels. At the time of his death in 1996, Caunitz was in the midst of writing his seventh novel, a police thriller entitled Chains of Command. After Caunitz died, his publisher, the defendant Penguin Putnam, Inc...

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