Legal Opinion
Courier Times, Inc. v. United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 21, 1982No. 501 and 523PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Judge:
This appeal is from an order granting a preliminary injunction 1 , which decrees that, pending the outcome of the three plaintiff newspapers’ request for a permanent injunction, defendant United Feature Syndicate, Inc. (United) must specifically perform an alleged one-year oral contract permitting the plaintiff newspapers to publish the popular comic strip, “Peanuts.” Separate appeals were filed by United and by defendant Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. (the Inquirer), 2 which claimed it had exclusive rights to “Peanuts” on the basis of a written contract with United. The two…
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