Martin v. Little, Brown and Co.

WIEAND, Judge:

This appeal was taken from an order sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer to appellant’s pro se complaint in assumpsit. The trial court held that a contract had not been made and that there could be no recovery on quantum meruit where appellant had volunteered information which enabled appellee, a publisher of books, to effect a recovery against a third person for copyright infringement. We agree and, accordingly, affirm.

The averments of the complaint 1 disclose that on September 28, 1976, the appellant, James L. Martin, directed a letter to Bantam Books,…