Orbach v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, by amendment from a bill in equity for specific performance, filed in the Superior Court on September 14, 1917, for breach of six agreements in writing to furnish to the plaintiff films.of moving pictures for exhibition in his theatre. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Hitchcock, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion.
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Contract, by amendment from a bill in equity for specific performance, filed in the Superior Court on September 14, 1917, for breach of six agreements in writing to furnish to the plaintiff films.of moving pictures for exhibition in his theatre. In the Superior Court the action was tried before Hitchcock, J. The material evidence is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence, the defendant asked for, and the judge refused to give, the following rulings among others: “1. On all of the evidence the defendant is entitled to a verdict. “2. The plaintiff has not established that a…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The plaintiff, who owned and operated the Owl Theatre in Lowell, seeks to recover damages from the defendant, a distributor of motion picture films, for breach of six written contracts. Under these agreements the defendant, during the year beginning September 1, 1917, was to release a certain number of films or plays, in which designated well known *284“stars” enacted the leading role; and to license the plaintiff to exhibit one copy of each of the films at his theatre for three successive days, at a specified price. The defendant now concedes that there was evidence which, if believed, warranted…
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