Legal Opinion
Albert Ettore v. Philco Television Broadcasting Corporation, Clayton, Inc. & Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, Consolidated
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 3, 1956No. 11503PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIGGS, Chief Judge.
On this appeal we find ourselves within that forest ruefully referred to by Judge Goodrich in Leverton v. Curtis Pub. Co., 3 Cir., 1951, 192 F.2d 974, 975. The forest in this case, however, is only four states deep.
The plaintiff, Ettore, met Joe Louis in a boxing contest or fight in Philadelphia in 1936 and was knocked down in the first and fourth rounds and out in the fifth. Motion pictures were taken of the contest with Ettore’s knowledge and consent; indeed, he contracted to be paid 20% of all proceeds derived from the sale of the motion picture rights of the contest and…
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