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SHELDON v. METRO-GOLDWYN PICTURES CORPORATION

7 F.Supp. 837 (1934)

SHELDON et al. v. METRO-GOLDWYN PICTURES CORPORATION et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

July 25, 1934.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, of New York City (Dennis F. O'Brien, Arthur F. Driscoll, Edward J. Clark, and Sidney G. Rosenbloom, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

J. Robert Rubin and Nathan Burkan, both of New York City (Nathan Burkan, Louis D. Frohlich, David O. Decker, H. Finkelstein, and Samuel D. Cohen, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendants.

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

My decision herein is that the bill of complaint must be dismissed, but without costs.

I. This is a suit in equity based on alleged infringement of the copyright of the plaintiffs' play "Dishonored Lady," copyrighted by them on January 18, 1930, by the motion picture photoplay "Letty Lynton," copyrighted in the name of the defendant Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation on May 6, 1932.

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