ST. LOUIS AMUSEMENT CO. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTR. CORP.

No. 13180.

156 F.2d 400 (1946)

ST. LOUIS AMUSEMENT CO. et al. v. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

July 15, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell Hardy, of Washington, D. C. (Mat J. Holland and James H. Arthur, both of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellants.

Albert C. Bickford, of New York City (Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford, Jacob M. Lashly and Israel Treiman, all of St. Louis, Mo., Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, Whitney North Seymour, and Armand F. Macmanus, all of New York City, and Julius H. Drucker, of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellees Paramount Film Distributing Corp., RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., and Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp.

S. Mayner Wallace, of St Louis, Mo. (Edwin Foster Blair, of New York City, and Wesley A. Sturges, of New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for appellees American Arbitration Association and Harold D. Conner.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This action was brought by the owners and operators of several moving picture theatres in St. Louis against a number of picture distributing corporations and others1 for injunction and treble damages for alleged violations of the Federal anti-trust laws. The complaint charged conspiracy in restraint of trade and concerted action by defendants to exclude the plaintiffs from the use of motion pictures except upon terms and conditions...

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