Curwood v. Affiliated Distributors, Inc.

KNOX, District Judge.

Upon the submission of the proofs in this litigation, it appeared to me that its outstanding feature was that defendants were making an improper use of plaintiff’s name in the exploitation of the motion picture film entitled “I Am the Law.” In this behalf, I expressed my views in an opinion filed herein upon or about July 22. At that time I reserved for further consideration the *224question of damages sought by plaintiff from defendants, together with the allegation that the aforesaid picture infringes upon his copyright of the novel known as “The River’s End.”

In the period…