Dellar v. Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.

This appeal comes up upon a motion to dismiss a bill of complaint upon two causes of suit; one, based upon the infringement by a moving picture of the plaintiffs’ literary property in one version of a play; the other, upon infringement of their copyright in another version: the bill fused both causes into one unseparated narrative. The defendants answéred, and the plaintiffs filed interrogatories', one of which demanded the production of a “scenario or synopsis” of the infringing film. After some delay the defendants filed a kind of scenario, known as “a cut7 ting continuity”; and then in…