Speelman v. Pascal

Chief Judge Desmond.

Gabriel Pascal, defendant’s intestate who died in 1954, had been for many years a theatrical producer. In 1952 an English corporation named Gabriel Pascal Enterprises, Ltd., of whose 100 shares Gabriel Pascal owned 98, made an agreement with the English Public Trustee who represented the estate of George Bernard Shaw. This agreement granted to Gabriel Pascal Enterprises, Ltd., the exclusive world rights to prepare and produce a musical play to be based on Shaw’s play ‘1 Pygmalion ’ ’ and a motion picture version of the musical play. The agreement recited, as was the fact,…