M. Witmark & Sons v. Peters
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William Frederick Peters and another, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of June, 1914, upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Plaintiff, a publisher of music, entered into a written agreement with the defendant Peters, who was a composer, on or about December 8, 1911, under the terms of which Peters was to deliver to the plaintiff for publication during a period of five years, all the music which he alone or in conjunction with others should either write or compose or acquire control of, and by which the composer agreed that all musical compositions which *367he might write or compose during said period, including the titles, words and music thereof, should, immediately upon the same being written or…
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