Shaw v. Stone
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Duffield & Company',' from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York. Special Term and enteredin the office of the clerk of the county'of New York on the 29th day of November, 1907, denying the said d'efendant’s motion for a bill of particulars.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The amended complaint, alleges that Herbert S. Stone & Co., under a certain agreement with George Bernard Shaw, took out four copyrights in the United States on books written by Shaw, holding these copyrights in trust for the benefit of Shaw, and meanwhile publishing the books under a license from Shaw. It is further alleged that in 1905 Shaw revoked the lieénse and demanded a reassignment of the copyrights from the defendants Stone, but they, instead of reassigning them to Shaw, assigned them on March 3, 1906, to Dufiield & Co., said Dufiield & Co. having notice of Shaw’s claim of…
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