Conried v. Witmark
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Marcus Witmark and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of April, 1902, denying the said defendants’ motion for leave to interpose a supplemental answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This action was brought to restrain the defendants from performing or authorizing or permitting the performance of certain operas composed by one Johann Strauss, the plaintiff claiming that by virtue of an agreement with the said Strauss he had become the sole and exclusive owner of all the plays, dramas, comedies or operettas composed by him up to and including March 15, 1896. The defendants deny the making of the agreement or that Strauss wrote, origiinated or composed any of the said operettas or operas, or that he ever had any title thereto; and deny other allegations of the…
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