Colby v. Burnham

This is a contract action involving the termination of a coauthorship agreement to produce Lost Victory, a book on the involvement of the United States in the war in Vietnam. The trial court rendered judgment pursuant to a referee’s corrected report finding that the defendant failed to perform his obligations under the agreement between the parties in a timely *709manner and awarding the plaintiff $23,000 in damages.1 On appeal, the defendant claims that the attorney trial referee improperly (1) found that the defendant had breached the agreement by failing to perform within an implied reasonable…