PHILADELPHIA WORLD HOCKEY CLUB, INC., Plaintiff,
v.
PHILADELPHIA HOCKEY CLUB, INC., et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 27, 1972.
September 27, 1972.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, by Edward W. Madeira, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.
Blank, Rome, Klaus & Comisky, by Edwin P. Rome, and Richard P. McElroy, Philadelphia, Pa., and Covington & Burling, by Harry L. Shniderman, and Herbert Dym, Washington, D. C. for Philadelphia Hockey Club, Inc., Boston Professional Hockey Assn., Inc., Charles O. Finley and Co., Inc., Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc., Detroit Hockey Club, Inc., California Sports, Incorporated, North Star Financial Corporation, Le Club de Hockey Canadien, Inc., Madison Square Center, Inc., Pittsburgh Penguin Partners, limited partnership, St. Louis Blues Hockey Club, Inc., Maple Leaf Gardens, Limited, Vancouver Hockey Club, Limited, Niagara Frontier Hockey Corp., and National Hockey League, defendants.
Arthur Morse, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc.
Harold E. Kohn, P. A., by Stephen E. Haberfeld, Philadelphia, Pa., for John McKenzie.
Jerome H. Torshen, Chicago, Ill., for Sports Centrepoint, and others.
Sommer, Tinkham, Barnard & Freiberger by William C. Barnard, Indianapolis, Ind., for Chicago Blackhawk Hockey Team, Inc.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
OPINION OF THE COURT*
HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
In the courts of Chicago and Philadelphia, the litigants and their counsel have exerted an aggressiveness equal to the vigor which their purported superstar, Robert M. Hull, has exemplified on the ice rink.
All parties concede that Hull is "one of, if not the greatest, professional hockey players in the world."
But after the thousands of words of adoration and...
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