Caruso v. Caruso

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The basic fact which led to litigation in the courts of this state, was a contract, entered into, and to be performed in this state, by the famous tenor, Enrico Caruso, in his lifetime, with the Yictor Talking Machine Company, a corporation of this state, whereby it agreed to pay a royalty of ten per cent, on all sales of the Caruso singing records, for an indefinite period of time, and under which contract, the Yictor com pany had already paid royalties after Caruso’s death, for the years 1921 and 1922, amounting to more than $500,000, to…