TIMES FILM CORP. v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SAFETY


333 Mass. 62 (1955)

127 N.E.2d 893

TIMES FILM CORPORATION vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 6, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred A. Albert & Felix J. Bilgrey of New York, for the petitioner.

Joseph H. Elcock, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, (Arnold H. Salisbury, Assistant Attorney General, with him,) for the defendant.

Present: QUA, C.J., WILKINS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

On the merits this case is governed by Brattle Films, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Safety, ante, 58. The petitioner, which is a distributor of motion picture films and the owner of distribution rights in two specified films, brings this petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the action of the respondent in failing to approve in writing the films for exhibition on the Lord's day pursuant to...

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