Legal Opinion · Dissent

Mason v. Lyl Productions

California Supreme Court

Decided July 26, 1968No. L. A. 29553Published

1DissentSullivan, J.

I dissent. In essence the majority hold that " [r]egardless of whether Lyl’s order for Portland not to leave the studio was communicated to her or her authorized agent prior to the time she left, Portland’s act in leaving would not constitute grounds for [Lyl’s] terminating the contract" because "the trial court determined upon an abundance of evidence, that the order . . . was unreasonable under the circumstances." One reads in vain the trial court’s conclusion of law set forth verbatim by the majority immediately before such holding, in order to discover those words which, according to the…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. ABC Freight Forwarding Corp. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  2. Columbia Pictures Corp. v. DeTothCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1948
  3. May v. New York Motion Picture Corp.California Court of Appeal · 1920
  4. Earl v. Saks & Co.California Supreme Court · 1951
  5. Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. BettencourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1932

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