MacDonald v. Du Maurier

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of copyright. The plaintiff, appellant here, wrote a. story entitled “I Planned to Murder My Husband” which was published in Hearst’s International Magazine for October ,1924 and copyrighted. Later she expanded the story into a novel entitled “Blind Windows,” published and copyrighted in 1927. In 1938 the appellee published a book entitled “Rebecca” of which Daphne DuMaurier (named as a defendant in the present action but not served with process) was the author. The other defendants, not parties to this appeal, had to do with the production…