PARAMOUNT-RICHARDS THEATRES v. CITY OF HATTIESBURG

No. 37669.

210 Miss. 271 (1950)

49 So.2d 574

PARAMOUNT-RICHARDS THEATRES, INC., et al. v. CITY OF HATTIESBURG.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

December 11, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brandon, Brandon, Hornsby & Handy, Green, Green & Cheney, Heidelberg & Roberts, Earle L. Wingo and Gibbons Burke, for appellants.

Alfred Moore and Edward J. Currie, for appellee.


Lee, J.

Paramount-Richards Theatres, Inc., and others have appealed from a decree of the Chancery Court of Forrest County, enjoining them, on the complaint of the City of Hattiesburg, from operating moving picture shows after the hour of 6:00 P.M. on Sundays.

During the period from 1941 to 1949, picture shows in the City of Hattiesburg were operated without molestation. On June 23, 1949, after a change in the city administration on the first of...

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