Kurlan v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

Arthur Kurlan is suing Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and others for damages upon the ground that they copied and used a proposed radio program owned by him. As in Weitzenkorn v. Lesser, ante, p. 778 [256 P.2d 947], the appeal is from a judgment entered upon an order sustaining the demurrers of the defendants without leave to amend.

For his first cause of action, Kurlan alleges that Ruth MeKenney “originated, created and wrote certain stories for the ‘New Yorker Magazine’ which were subsequently dramatized in a stage play entitled ‘My Sister Eileen,’ and which were subsequently used as…