Nixon & Zimmerman Amusement Co. v. Lee Lash Co.

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 89
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 233

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Theater—Advertising drop curtain — Moving pictures.</p> <p>Where the proprietor of a theater agrees with the owner of an advertising drop curtain to install the curtain in his theater for a period of five years and to use the same during all intermissions at all performances in consideration of a payment to him of a stated sum for each season, and covenants to return the curtain at the end of the contract, a change in the use of the theater from legitimate theatrical performances to a cheap moving picture and vaudeville show without any intermissions, will end the contract, relieve the owner of the curtain from the money payments he had assumed, and entitle him to a return of the curtain.</p>