BANTAM BOOKS, INC. v. SULLIVAN

Eq. No. 2925.

176 A.2d 393 (1961)

BANTAM BOOKS, INC. et al. v. Joseph A. SULLIVAN et al. As Members of the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

December 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abedon, Michaelson and Stanzler, Milton Stanzler, Weil, Gotshall & Manges, Horace S. Manges, Jacob F. Raskin, New York, New York, for petitioners.

J. Joseph Nugent, Attorney General, Joseph L. Breen, Chief Special Counsel, for State, for respondents.


CONDON, C.J.

This is a petition to the superior court for a declaratory judgment under G.L. 1956, chap. 9-30, otherwise known as the uniform declaratory judgments act. The cause is here on the petitioners' appeal from a decree denying a portion of the relief prayed for, and also on the respondents' appeal from such decree granting the petitioners certain other relief which they sought.

The petitioners are Bantam Books, Inc., Dell Publishing Company, Inc.,...

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