Copland v. Summ

The defendant Gene Summ is the owner of a season ticket subscription to four courtside seats to New York Knickerbockers basketball games at Madison Square Garden. The plaintiff Richard Copland, an attorney, and the plaintiff Joel Taman, a business associate of the defendant Summ, have for inany seasons been beneficiaries of Summ’s generosity insofar as they, and several others over the years, have regularly been permitted to purchase, at face value, a significant number of his very desirable tickets. The parties’ informal arrangement apparently functioned smoothly until the Knicks reached the…