Jerome v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

LEIBELL, District Judge.

An application has been submitted by defendant for an allowance of attorney’s fees of $30,000, under § 40 of the Copyright Law, 17 U.S.C.A. § 40. This suit for a copyright infringement was tried before me for three days in February 1946. A number of depositions had been taken before the trial. After briefs and proposed findings were submitted and on July 25, 1946, I filed my opinion, findings of fact and conclusions of law, and dismissed the complaint on the merits. 67 F.Supp. 736. In my opinion I passed upon certain novel special defenses and decided the questions…