William M. Condon, Appellant v. Associated Hospital Service of New York, Respondents

Summary

The Court held that the plaintiff's complaint sufficiently alleged a breach of an express contract with the individual defendants, reversing the dismissal of that cause of action, while affirming dismissal of the claim against the corporate defendant as a pure copyright infringement action outside state jurisdiction. The decision rests on liberal construction of pleadings to preserve a contract claim and the principle that copyright infringement is exclusively federal.