Keefe Co. v. Americable International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the installment contract rule applied and explaining that \nonpayment of one installment triggers no requirement to sue on the totality of the debt\
• retaining rule over defendant’s objection that it would “allow a single cause of action to re-appear, phoenix-like, every month”
• explaining that a “total breach may be by repudiation”
• “applying installment obligation rule to contract which created ‘no fixed amount to be paid out over time ... but rather a continuing obligation to pay a portion of the profits and royalties on [the song the plaintiffs sold thirty years prior] as the recording gets used over time’”
• \applying installment obligation rule to contract which created 'no fixed amount to be paid out over time ... but rather a continuing obligation to pay a portion of the profits and royalties on [the song the plaintiffs sold thirty years prior] as the recording gets used over time' \
• “Where a contract involves future installment obligations, it seems logically to follow that repudiation of the contract in its entirety would require a clear anticipatory breach of all future obligations in addition to any present breach.”

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