Savoy Record Co. v. Cardinal Export Corp.

15 N.Y.2d 1 (1964)

Savoy Record Company, Inc., Respondent,

v.

Cardinal Export Corp., Appellant, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Argued October 5, 1964.

Decided November 19, 1964.

Mortimer G. Levine for appellant.

Thomas R. Levy and Walter Hofer for respondent.

Judges VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and SCILEPPI concur with Judge FULD; Judge BERGAN dissents in an opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND and Judge DYE concur.

FULD, J.

On November 1, 1960 Savoy Record Company, a New Jersey corporation engaged in making phonograph records, signed two letters, addressed to "Armonia E. Ritmo, Via…