Haviland v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

J. —Defendant has appealed from a judgment declaring at an end its contract for the services of plaintiff as a motion picture actress. The ground of the decision was .that the contract had run for seven years, the maximum life "allowed such contracts by former Civil Code, section 1980, now section 2855 of the Labor Code. It was executed April 14, 1936, for a term of fifty-two weeks and gave the employer the right to extend the term for any or "all of six successive periods of fifty-two" weeks' each. ' These options were exercised from time to timé by the employer so as to cover the entire…