ST. LOUIS AMUSEMENT CO. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES

No. 3158.

61 F.Supp. 854 (1945)

ST. LOUIS AMUSEMENT CO. et al. v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES, Inc., et al.

District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

August 6, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mat J. Holland, of St. Louis, Mo. (Russell Hardy, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Jacob M. Lashly and Israel Treiman, of Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford, all of St. Louis, Mo., and Whitney North Seymour, of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, Albert C. Bickford, and Armand F. Macmanus, all of New York City, for moving defendants (Julius H. Drucker, of St. Louis, Mo., of counsel), for moving defendant Paramount Film Distributing Corporation and others.

S. Mayner Wallace, of St. Louis, Mo., for defendants American Arbitration Association and Harold D. Conner.

Rene J. Lusser, of St. Louis, Mo., for defendant Harry G. Erbs.

Mortimer A. Rosecan, of St. Louis, Mo., for defendants Adolph Rosecan, Joseph Litvag, and Apollo Theatre Corporation.


DUNCAN, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are motion picture exhibitors in the City of St. Louis and ask for an injunction and treble damages against the defendants for alleged violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1-7, 15 note.

The defendants Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Twentieth-Century-Fox Film Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation are distributors of motion pictures...

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