Manners v. Triangle Film Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by J. Hartley Manners against the Triangle Film Corporation and the Rialto Theater Corporation. From an order granting an injunction pendente lite, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order granting aninjunction pendente lite. May 1, 1917, the suit was brought and tire affidavits show that the complainant in 1914 wrote a one-act play called “Happiness,” which he presented seven times in all at Friday matinées in the Cort Theater, New York City, in March and April of that year; Laurette Taylor having the chief part. Between May and December, 1915,, he announced extensively in the newspapers that he intended to present a three-act play under that title with Laurette Taylor in the leading role. His contention is. that in this way…
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