Hackett v. Walter

Plaintiff, a playwright, brings this action to restrain the defendants from presenting the play entitled “ Fine Feathers.” He .asserts that the play is being produced as the individual work of the defendant Walter, but that in fact it was the joint *341work of Walter and himself. In a word, the plaintiff claims that the defendants have fraudulently deprived him of his rights growing out of the joint authorship of the play. The evidence does not sustain this contention. It appears that the plaintiff wrote the scenario and theme of the play entitled “ C. O. D.,” and on the 17th day of November,…