PITTSBURGH ATHLETIC CO. v. KQV BROADCASTING CO.

No. 3415.

24 F.Supp. 490 (1938)

PITTSBURGH ATHLETIC CO. et al. v. KQV BROADCASTING CO.

District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

August 8, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shoemaker & Eynon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Miller, Owen, Otis & Bailly, of New York City (George L. Eynon, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Louis F. Carroll, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff Pittsburgh Athletic Co.

Thorp, Bostwick, Reed & Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Webster & Garside and Louis M. Treadwell, all of New York City (Roy G. Bostwick, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Bethuel M. Webster, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs General Mills, Inc., Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., and National Broadcasting Co., Inc.

Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Elder W. Marshall and Henry Eastman Hackney, both of Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for defendant.


SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.

This is an action in equity in which plaintiffs ask for a preliminary injunction to restrain defendant from broadcasting play-by-play reports and descriptions of baseball games played by the "Pirates," a professional baseball team owned by Pittsburgh Athletic Company, both at its home baseball park in Pittsburgh, known as "Forbes Field," and at baseball parks in other cities.

The plaintiffs have moved for a preliminary injunction...

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