E. P. Dutton & Co. v. Isaac Goldmann Co.

Defendant appeals from a determination of the Appellate Term, unanimously affirming a judgment entered in the City Court of the City of New York, upon the verdict of a jury, for $1,000. Plaintiff, a book publisher, sued defendant, printer of illustrations, for the loss of electroplates delivered by plaintiff to defendant in 1944, which were used by defendant in printing illustrations in color for a book by Compton Mackenzie entitled “ Mr. Roosevelt ”. Appellant printed the illustrations which it delivered to the printer of the book, The American Book-Stratford Press. When plaintiff first…