AURORA v. WARNER BROS. PICTURES DIST. CORP.

Gen. No. 11,064.

16 Ill. App.2d 273 (1958)

147 N.E.2d 694

City of Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, a municipal corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation, Balaban & Katz Corporation; Publix Great States Theatres, Inc., and William T. Langdon, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Second District, First Division.

Released for publication February 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Putnam, Johnson & Alschuler, Mayer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown & Platt, and Arthur A. Goldberg (Sam Alschuler, Ralph C. Putnam, Jr., Miles G. Seeley, John E. Clay, and Edward R. Lev, of counsel) for appellants.

Charles A. Darling, Corporation Counsel, for appellee.


JUSTICE McNEAL delivered the opinion of the court.

On January 29, 1957, the Circuit Court of Kane county entered an order for a temporary injunction restraining the defendants from exhibiting the motion picture "BABY DOLL" in the city of Aurora. On the following day defendants appeared and moved to dissolve the injunction, and plaintiff, city of Aurora, was granted leave to file an amended complaint. On January 31 a...

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