Cummings v. Columbia Pictures Corp.

This is an appeal by the defendant from the judgment of the superior court, based upon a complaint for declaratory relief construing a contract of employment entered into between the plaintiff and the defendant, dated October 4,1930, whereby the defendant employed the plaintiff to act as a moving picture actress in a production entitled, “The Criminal Code”, terms of employment to commence on or about the thirtieth day of Septémber, 1930. The contract further provided, in paragraph fourteen thereof, that the defendant might exercise options of six' months each for the services of the…