Schuyler

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action for damages for the breach of a written contract alleged to have been entered into between herself and the defendants, by the terms of which the plaintiff was ‘ to produce upon the circuit of the defendants for a period of fourteen weeks a vaudeville production which she had written and was, with the aid of another, to perform in the various playhouses of the defendants throughout said circuit, and for which she was to receive the sum of $115 per week and her traveling expenses.

The plaintiff’s complaint is in five counts, all, however, being based upon the same transaction. In the third of said counts the plaintiff includes in her averments and demands for damages the value of a drop-curtain alleged to be the sum of $500, ordered by her for the purposes of her production, and rendered valueless by the defendants’ refusal to permit her to perform her said agreement; while in the last of said counts the plaintiff includes a demand for damages in the sum of $25,000 for injuries to her reputation as a writer and producer of plays, and to her physical health, arising out of the defendants’ refusal to permit the…