Astruc v. Star Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action for newspaper libel by Gabriel Astruc against the Star Company. There was a judgment of the Circuit Court (182 Fed. 705) for defendant, entered on a verdict for defendant, anti plaintiff brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action for newspaper libel by Gabriel Astruc against the Star Company. There was a judgment of the Circuit Court (182 Fed. 705) for defendant, entered on a verdict for defendant, anti plaintiff brings error. This cause comes here upon appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of defendant in error, who was defendant below. The action was for an alleged libel concededly published in defendant’s newspaper.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff is a French citizen and a resident of'the city of Paris, where — and elsewhere in Europe — he has been engaged in business as intermediary to secure engagements for operatic singers and similar artists.
Pie had a contract dated October 21, 1908, with the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, a private corporation, which was engaged in the business of giving operatic performances in this country. By this contract the Metropolitan Opera Company conferred upon him for a period of five years “the exclusive representation of its artistic and administrative…
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