Liza Co. v. Mark Hellinger Theatre, Inc.

The plaintiff, the Liza Company, is a limited partnership engaged in the production of the play ‘ ‘ My Fair Lady”. Its sole general partner is one Herman Levin, an experienced and a successful Broadway producer.

The defendant, the Mark Hellinger Theatre, Inc., is a corporation which owns and operates a theatre of that name. Its principal officers and stockholders are Stanley Stahl, a defendant herein, and his father, Max Stahl, neither of whom had any experience in the theatre business prior to March 15, 1957, when they acquired the Hellinger Theatre from one Anthony Brady Farrell,…