MacDonald v. Du Maurier

BONDY, District Judge.

This is a motion made by the defendant Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., for a summary judgment dismissing the complaint as against it.

The affidavits disclose the following among other facts from which the triers of the issues may reasonably infer that Daphne Du Maurier had access to plaintiff’s copyrighted works: the issue of Hearst’s International magazine for October, 1924, in which plaintiff’s copyrighted story “I Planned to Murder My Husband” appeared, was sold in England, where Du Maurier resided; plaintiff’s copyrighted book “Blind Windows” was published and sold…