In re All Star Feature Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the All Star Feature Corporation, bankrupt. On petition to review an order of the referee denying priority to the claim of Jane Klauber. The petitioner is the well-known actress going by the name of Jane Cowl, who entered into a contract with the bankrupt to perform as acffiess in a motion picture play entitled “The Garden of Lies.”
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In Bankruptcy. In the matter of the All Star Feature Corporation, bankrupt. On petition to review an order of the referee denying priority to the claim of Jane Klauber. The petitioner is the well-known actress going by the name of Jane Cowl, who entered into a contract with the bankrupt to perform as acffiess in a motion picture play entitled “The Garden of Lies.” She wa's' to receive $5,000, for four weeks’ engagement, beginning November 1, 1914, and ending not later than December 1, 1914. Besides acting, she was to furnish her own costumes. It was agreed that if necessary she shoüld give…
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
It is a good deal easier to see that the petitioner is not entitled to a priority than to state any general rule which will be applicable in all cases. To succeed she must bring herself within the words “workman” or “servant.” Everyone who understands words knows that it is absurd to call an actress who can command $5,000 for a four weeks engagement a workman or a servant. The words are used in their colloquial sense. Re Gurewitz, 121 Fed. 982, 58 C. C. A. 320; Re Grubbs Wiley Grocery Co. (D. C.) 96 Fed. 183. And the word “servant” does not include all cases where…
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