Daly v. Walrath
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Appeal by the plaintiff, Augustin Daly, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Eew York on the 24th day of September, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term. - This appeal was transferred from the first department to the second department.. -
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
Sometime prior to December 16, 1889, Herman Sudermann, of Berlin, a German author of distinction, wrote a play entitled Die Ehre, or, in English, Honor. ' Upon that date he entered into a contract with Emanuel Lederer, of Hew York, whereby he.sold to the latter the play aforesaid, with the original manuscripts in the German and English languages, for the United States of America, England, Canada and Australia, it being declared to be the intent of the agreement that the said Emanuel Lederer should be, in the ■above territory, “ the sole and exclusive owner of the said…
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