King Features Syndicate, Inc. v. Valley Broadcasting Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a distributor of news . for broadcasting, sued defendants, operators of a radio station at Reynosa, Republic of Mexico, for both accumulated weekly payments for the service and for anticipatory breach of the contract, which had an initial period of one year, according to the contention of appellant, subject to renewal for five years, unless one or the other of the parties made known in writing its purpose to discontinue not less than six months before the end of each contractual period.

Defendants plead two principal defenses (1) want of mutuality in the…