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TIMES FILM CORPORATION v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 11776.

244 F.2d 432 (1957)

TIMES FILM CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

May 21, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abner J. Mikva, Chicago, Ill., Felix Bilgrey, New York City, for appellant.

John C. Melaniphy and Sydney R. Drebin, Robert J. Collins, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellees.

Before LINDLEY, SWAIM and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.

SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, a New York corporation, filed its complaint in the district court, on the ground of diversity of citizenship between it and the defendants, city of Chicago, its mayor, and its commissioner of police.

In count I, it alleges that it had the exclusive right to exhibit in said city a motion picture film entitled "The Game of Love", and that, pursuant to sections 155-1 to 155-7 of the municipal code of the city, it applied...

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