INTERBOROUGH NEWS COMPANY, Plaintiff,
v.
The CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Curtis Circulation Company, Triangle Publications, Inc., S-M News Company, Inc., McCall Corporation, Popular Science Publishing Company, Inc., Meredith Publishing Company, Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Hearst Magazines, Inc., Fawcett Publications, Inc., Macfadden Publications, Inc., Hillman Periodicals, Inc., National Comics Publications, Inc., Independent News Co., Inc., Publishers Distributing Corporation, Field Enterprises, Inc., Pocket Books, Inc., Walter D. Fuller, Benjamin Allen, Ray C. McLarty, Victor E. Lance, Marvin Pierce, William A. Rogers, Robert E. Haig, Roscoe Fawcett, Allan Adams, O. J. Elder, Sol N. Himmelman, Alexander L. Hillman, Philip Keenan, Paul H. Sampliner, Harry Donenfeld, Irving S. Manheimer, Robert F. DeGraff, Wallis E. Howe, Jr., S. O. Shapiro and George B. Davis, Defendants, and Jules Stolz, Almond E. Booth, George P. Booth, and Herbert Meyer, Additional Defendants to the Counterclaims of Defendants Curtis Circulation Company, Triangle Publications, Inc., and Fawcett Publications, Inc.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 8, 1954.
Supplemental Opinion November 22, 1954.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Webster, Sheffield & Chrystie, New York City, for plaintiff, and additional defendants to the counterclaims Jules Stolz, Almond E. Booth, George P. Booth, and Herbert Meyer; Bethuel M. Webster, John V. Lindsay, and Denis R. Sheil, New York City, of counsel.
Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for defendants The Curtis Publishing Co., Curtis Circulation Co., Walter D. Fuller, Benjamin Allen, and Victor E. Lance; Albert R. Connelly, Edward C. Perkins, and Justin S. Colin, New York City, of counsel.
Whitman, Ransom & Coulson, New York City, for defendants S-M News Co., Inc., McCall Corp., Meredith Publishing Co., Popular Science Publishing Co., Inc., William A. Rogers and Marvin Pierce; Forbes D. Shaw, E. Kendall Gillett, Jr., and Daniel F. Callahan, New York City, of counsel.
Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, for defendant Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; Thomas F. Daly, and John W. Castles, III, New York City, of counsel.
McCauley & Henry, New York City, for defendants Hearst Magazines, Inc. and Robert E. Haig; Thomas A. Brennan, and Clarence J. Shearn, New York City, of counsel.
DeWitt, Van Aken & Nast, New York City, for defendant Fawcett Publications, Inc.; C. Coudert Nast, and William R. Lonergan, New York City, of counsel.
Joseph Schultz, New York City, for defendants Macfadden Publications, Inc., O. J. Elder, Sol N. Himmelman and S. O. Shapiro; Joseph Schultz, and Joseph E. Ginn, New York City, of counsel.
Herman H. Solnit, New York City, for defendants Hillman Periodicals, Inc., Alexander L. Hillman and Philip Keenan; Thomas A. Brennan, of counsel.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendants National Comics Publications, Inc., Independent News Co., Inc., Paul H. Sampliner and Harry Donenfeld; Horace S. Manges, and Edward C. Wallace, New York City, of counsel.
Benjamin E. Winston, New York City, for defendants Publishers Distributing Corp., Irving S. Manheimer and George B. Davis.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for defendants Field Enterprises, Inc., Pocket Books, Inc., and Robert F. DeGraff; Samuel J. Silverman, and Jay H. Topkis, New York City, of counsel.
United States District Court, S. D. New York.
SUGARMAN, District Judge.
The defendants' motions to dismiss the complaint are granted.
In this opinion and appendix a number in parentheses ( ) denotes the page number of the printed trial record whereon testimony concerning the subject matter appears and a description and number in brackets [ ] denotes the identification mark of an exhibit received in evidence wherein the subject matter appears.
On December 13, 1949 Interborough News Company (hereinafter...
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