Bernard-Beere v. Mayer

The action was brought to recover upon an alleged bond of indemnity of the defendants to the plaintiff, conditioned upon her obligation to pay a certain sum to one Wyndham. Annexed to the bond is a paper writing, which was attempted to be made the subject of a contract between the plaintiff and Wyndham, under which, as it is claimed, the plaintiff, who is an actress, was to produce, upon certain terms and for a period therein mentioned, a certain play, known as “ The Fringe of Society,” and which, it is conceded, was the property of Wyndham. This identical paper appears not to have been…