COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION v. ROGERS

Nos. 201-215.

81 F.Supp. 580 (1949)

COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION v. ROGERS et al. and fourteen other cases.

United States District Court S. D. West Virginia.

January 4, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paxton & Seasongood and Evans L. DeCamp, all of Cincinnati Ohio, Sargoy & Stein, of New York City, and Luther G. Scott, of Bluefield, W. Va., for plaintiffs.

Joseph M. Sanders, of Bluefield, W. Va., and B. F. Howard, of Welch, W. Va., for defendants.


BEN MOORE, Chief Judge.

As will be seen from the caption, eight of these fifteen cases are brought against one set of defendants, and seven against another and individual defendant. The plaintiffs are various moving picture distributing corporations, which are mainly the same in each group of cases. I am of opinion that all the cases involve a common question of law, and that, generally speaking, they involve also common questions of fact. At the outset, therefore...

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