American Weekly, Inc. v. Patterson

This suit was brought pursuant to chapter 294 ofc Acts of 1939 (Code, art. 31 A) to declare null and avoid a notice of an alleged breach of contract sent appellee by appellants, and to construe the rights of the appellee under said contract.

Eleanor Medill Patterson, the plaintiff below and appellee in this court, is the publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, a consolidation of two former Hearst papers which she purchased in January, 1939.

Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., one of the appellants and defendants below, is the owner, indirectly through the medium of Hearst Publications,…