COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION v. GRENGS

Nos. 12210-12215.

257 F.2d 45 (1958)

COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees. WARNER BROS. PICTURES DISTRIBUTING CORP., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees. RKO TELERADIO PICTURES, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees. UNIVERSAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees. LOEW'S INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sheldon M. GRENGS et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

June 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Neville, and Neville, Johnson & Thompson, Minneapolis, Minn., R. A. Crawford, and Crawford, Crawford & Cirilli, Superior, Wis., John F. Whicher, New York City, and Sargoy & Stein, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Louis B. Schwartz, Samuel P. Halpern, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellees.

Before FINNEGAN, SCHNACKENBERG, and PARKINSON, Circuit Judges.


FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

Each of the six motion picture distributors, involved in this appeal, commenced these diversity of citizenship cases against defendant motion picture exhibitors to recover actual and punitive damages claimed to have been occasioned by a conspiracy to defraud each plaintiff, respectively, in which the defendants named in each case were charged with having participated. The bare bones of plaintiff's allegations can be reported beginning with...

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