DIPSON THEATRES v. BUFFALO THEATRES

No. 247, Docket 21887.

190 F.2d 951 (1951)

DIPSON THEATRES, Inc. v. BUFFALO THEATRES, Inc. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 25, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Borins & Hoffman, Buffalo, N. Y. (Robert L. Wright, Washington, D. C., Louis Borins and Dwight Campbell, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., counsel), for appellant.

Raichle, Tucker & Moore, Buffalo, N. Y. (Frank G. Raichle, Buffalo, N. Y., C. Stanley Thompson, Louis Phillips, New York City, and James O. Moore, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., counsel), for appellees Buffalo Theatres, Inc., Loew's Inc. and Paramount Pictures, Inc.

Sidney B. Pfeifer, Buffalo, N. Y. (John F. Caskey and Harry M. Pimstein, New York City, counsel), for defendants-appellees RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

O'Brien, Driscoll, Raftery & Lawler, New York City (Edward C. Raftery and George A. Raftery, New York City, counsel), for appellee, United Artists Corp.

O'Brien, Driscoll, Raftery & Lawler, New York City (Edward C. Raftery, George A. Raftery, Robert W. Perkins and Morris Ruffman, all of New York City, counsel), for appellee Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp., formerly called Vitagraph, Inc.

Brown, Kelly, Turner & Symons, Buffalo, N. Y. (J. Edmund Kelly and John E. Leach, Buffalo, N. Y., counsel), for appellee Vincent R. McFaul.

Dwight, Koegel, Harris & Caskey, New York City, for defendant-respondent Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Alfred M. Zisser, Buffalo, N. Y., and Schwartz & Frohlich, New York City, for defendant-respondent Columbia Pictures Corp.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This action was originally instituted in 1946 by Dipson Theatres, Inc. (hereinafter called Dipson), against eight national film distributors,1 hereinafter called Warner, Loew, Paramount, RKO, Fox, Universal, Columbia, and United; Buffalo Theatres, Inc. (hereinafter called Shea), its subsequently dissolved subsidiary Bison Theatres Corporation, and its president, McFaul, for treble damages arising from a...

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