Bussing v. Lowell Film Productions, Inc.

This action is brought by the assignee of the Exhibitors’ Herald, a trade paper circulated among moving *497pictures theatres in United States and Canada, to recover on a contract for advertising a moving picture film. Performance by the plaintiff is not questioned. The defendant asserts that it is not bound by the contract, because its president, John L. Russell, who executed the contract, had been removed at a meeting of the board of directors six days before the date of the contract, and, further, that it had contracted with Russell to pay bim a commission of the receipts from the sale or…