Motif Records Corp. v. Brummer

The appeal herein is taken by plaintiff and cross-defendant Motif Records Corporation from a judgment entered in favor of defendant and cross-complainant Brummer for $5,545.25. The amount of the judgment was arrived at by setting off certain sums found due to plaintiff from defendant and allowing credit therefor against the sum of $6,000 which Brummer successfully claimed under his cross-complaint.

The evidence discloses that about June 1956, Milton Vedder discussed with defendant the former’s intentions of going into the recording business. Vedder was inexperienced in this business and, in…