Stark Music Printing & Publishing Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baker
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Municipal Court for the plaintiff for $5861.37, entered on a directed verdict. The action was brought to recover on two promissory notes of defendant to plaintiff and for the purchase price of 14,793 copies of sheet music sold and delivered by plaintiff to defendant at the price of one cent per sheet. The principal and interest of the notes and the purchase price of the sheet music amount to $5,861.37, the sum for which the court directed a verdict.
Plaintiff sold and delivered to defendant a certain song, the music, musical composition and copyright…
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