United Artists Corp. v. Odeon Building, Inc.

The question for decision is whether the allegations of the- answer, assumed upon demurrer to be true, constitute a defense to the plaintiff’s alleged cause of *154action. The plaintiff sued to recover the full amount of certain rentals for films and records for which defendant Yeo had contracted but which defendant Odeon Building, Inc., had refused to accept.

It appears that the contracts entered into were the standard exhibition contracts, adopted by the moving-picture industry and used at that time by practically all distributors of films and records. Each of the contracts contained the…