Norm Advertising, Inc. v. Monroe Street Lumber Co.

This was an action for breach of a contract wherein the defendant agreed to pay to the plaintiff a specified sum of money, in installments, for a series of copyrighted pictorial illustrations together with certain advertising matter, all to be supplied periodically by the plaintiff for use by the defendant during a term of one year. Upon joinder of issue, the cause was tried to the court without a jury. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant moved for a dismissal of the action. The motion was denied. The defendant thereupon, without producing any evidence of its own, rested…