MacDonald v. Du Maurier

BRIGHT, District Judge.

This action is one seeking a judgment for an alleged infringement of copyrights. Edwina Levin MacDonald, originally the plaintiff, has died since the commencement of the action and her ancillary administrator has been substituted. In her lifetime she wrote “I Planned to Murder My Husband”, a confession story published in this country in Hearst’s International Magazine of October, 1924. She incorporated that story in the novel “Blind Windows”, which was published by the Macauley Company, in New York, in 1927.

In 1938, the novel “Rebecca”, written by the defendant Daphne…