Segar v. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

This action has been brought by the plaintiff, as executrix of Elzie Crisler Segar, for an accounting of moneys alleged to have been derived by the defendant from its licensing of persons, firms or corporations to exercise toy, novelty, song, book, motion picture, talking picture, stage and radio rights in and to the characters which appeared in certain comic strips drawn by the plaintiff’s testator, and for a decree directing that, by reason of the defendant’s failure to "make such accounting and pay over the amount due thereunder, the plaintiff be restored to all property rights in such…