King v. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

LEIBELL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, King, is a resident of Honolulu and a citizen of the Territory of Hawaii and of the United States. He is well known as a composer and publisher of Hawaiian music. The defendant, Marks Music Corporation, a New York corporation, is an old established publisher of musical compositions, with its principal office in the County of New York.

In May 1943 plaintiff, King, brought suit in this court against defendant, Marks Music Corporation, charging in three separate claims the infringement by defendant of plaintiff’s copyright of three musical compositions. The…