Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York April 10, 1908 (Jones v. American Law Book Co.)

Houghton, J.:

The defendant is engaged in the compilation and publication of „ the “ Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure,’-’ and the plaintiff entered into a contract with it whereby he agreed, for one year at five dollars and sixty cents per page, to write and prepare original articles and treatises, or parts of articles and treatises, on subjects and topics of the law selected and assigned to him