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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Olive Cornell, Respondent, v. Ziegfeld Follies,Inc., Appellant.
    
      Contract — master and servant — action to recover on alleged contract for services.
    
    
      Cornell v. Ziegfeld Follies, Inc., 209 App. Div. 863, affirmed.
    (Argued December 1, 1924;
    decided December 16, 1924.)
    Appeal- from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered July 11, 1924, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered-upon a verdict. The amended complaint alleged that the defendant (a domestic corporation) has been engaged in producing" a series of plays known as the “ Ziegfeld Follies,” which have a national reputation and great publicity and popularity; that the plaintiff is a singer, of established reputation, and on or about May 1, 1920, defendant knowing plaintiff's ability and value as" an attraction, employed the plaintiff to appear in “ Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 ” for the run of the play at a weekly salary of $200 for the season of 1920-1921; that the production of the play began about June 7, 1920, and with the exception of one week, the defendant refused to permit the plaintiff to appear in accordance with the terms of the said contract, to her damage.
    
      Nathan D. Stern for appellant.
    
      Max E. Greenberg and Meyer Greenberg for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ. Absent: Hiscock, Ch. J.