Raftery v. World Film Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, World Film Corporation, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of April, 1917, directing an accounting and a return to the plaintiff of twenty-six films of a motion picture known as “ The Head Hunters,” upon the decision of the court after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
Upon February 13, 1915, the Seattle Film Co., Inc., the plaintiff’s assignor, entered into a contract with the World Film Corporation, the defendant in this action, called in the contract the distributor. The general provisions of the contract were that the defendant, the distributor, should distribute and have produced the motion pictures representing “ The Head Hunters ” in the various theatres controlled by the defendant, which were twenty-six in number. The film was the property of the plaintiff’s assignor. Under the contract twenty-six positive prints, so called, were delivered…
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