Chaplin
Chaplin v. Western Feature Productions, Inc.
Opinion
lead Opinion
This cause came on regularly for trial in the above entitled Court in Department 31 thereof, *74 on February 19th, 1925, before the Honorable John L. Hudner, Judge thereof, presiding without a jury, a jury trial having been expressly waived by all the parties. The plaintiff was represented by his attorneys, Loyd Wright and Charles E. Millikan, Esquires, and the defendants were represented by their attorneys, Isadore Morris, Ben M. Goldman and J. J. Lieberman, Esqs., except that the defendants, John One, John Two and Mary One, were not represented, and a judgment of dismissal having been entered in open court as to the defendants Western Feature Productions, Inc., a corporation, A. J. Xydias, C. K. Xydias, John One, John Two and Mary One. Oral and documentary evidence having been introduced on behalf of the plaintiff and the defendants, and the Court having viewed certain motion pictures exhibited to the Court on behalf of the plaintiff and on behalf of the defendants, among which were that certain motion picture called “The Kid,” produced by the plaintiff, and in which the principal or leading part is enacted by the plaintiff, which was exhibited to the Court on behalf of the…