HOLMBY PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. VAUGHN

No. 39,699

177 Kan. 728 (1955)

282 P.2d 412

HOLMBY PRODUCTIONS, INCORPORATED, and UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, Appellees, v. MRS. FRANCES VAUGHN, MRS. J.R. STOWERS and MRS. BERTHA HALL, constituting The Kansas State Board of Review; HAROLD R. FATZER, Attorney General of the State of Kansas; and DONALD E. MARTIN, County Attorney of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed April 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Stanley, Jr., and Robert H. Bingham, both of Kansas City, argued the cause, and Arthur J. Stanley, J.E. Schroeder, L.E. Weeks, and Leonard O. Thomas, all of Kansas City, were with them on the briefs for the appellants.

James C. Wilson, of Kansas City, Mo., argued the cause, and Lee Vaughan, and Donald A. Hardy, both of Kansas City, and George T. Morton, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo., were with him on the briefs for the appellees.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

ROBB, J.:

This is an appeal from the trial court's order granting a permanent injunction in favor of appellees and enjoining appellants from interference with or penalization of appellees as a result of exhibition of the motion picture, "The Moon is Blue."

The appellants are the Kansas State Board of Review, the attorney general, and the county attorney of Wyandotte county. The appellees are Holmby Productions...

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