Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. Charles K. Harris Music Publishing Co., Inc., Defendant-Appellee-Appellant

CLARK, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff instituted this action in 1944 for a declaratory judgment that it was the sole owner of the renewed copyrights in a number of songs written by Joseph E. Howard and for an injunction restraining defendant from infringing its copyrights. Defendant asked by way of counterclaim for like relief in its favor. After numerous delays the case came to trial in 1955. The district court’s judgment declared the defendant the sole owner of the renewed copyrights in 28 of the songs, and the plaintiff the sole owner of the renewed copyrights in 154 of the songs. In addition it…