Meyers v. Cohen

The plaintiff recovered a judgment in the circuit court for the reasonable value of five pictures which she claims to have painted on order of the defendants for use in the decoration of the Hollywood theatre, then under construction in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

The plaintiff is an artist. It is her claim that she had a contract with 'the defendants to paint 11 pictures which they desired to hang on the walls of the Hollywood theatre; that after she had completed five of the paintings they refused to accept them and bought elsewhere.

The defendants deny the contract. They claim that the…