Del Riccio v. Photochart

This is an action to recover royalties under a 17-year license agreement covering certain camera devices and methods.

Plaintiff Del Biccio is an inventor and met defendant Bogart Bogers, the prime figure in defendant partnership and corporation, in 1937, at a motion picture studio in Hollywood. Del Biccio had been experimenting with a camera especially adapted to photographing moving objects. Bogers had been active in organizing Del Mar Bace Track, and plaintiff Del Biccio told him that the latter’s new camera would improve photo-finish photographing. Later, plaintiff Del Biccio and the…