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

No. 13502.

168 F.2d 988 (1948)

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

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

July 6, 1948.

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 (Jacob M. Lashly, Israel Treiman, Julius H. Drucker, Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford, all of St. Louis, Mo., and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation.

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 Ass'n. and Harold D. Conner.

Before SANBORN, THOMAS and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a summary judgment entered against the plaintiffs on motions of the defendants. The trial court's opinion appears in 61 F.Supp. 854.

The action is one under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq., brought by six motion picture exhibitors in St. Louis, Missouri, operating a total of 31 local theatres, against five major distributors in the industry,

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