PITTSBURGH HOTELS ASS'N, INC. v. URBAN REDEVELOP. AUTH.

Civ. A. No. 61-442.

202 F.Supp. 486 (1962)

PITTSBURGH HOTELS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Carlton Hotel Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Hilton Hotels Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Allegheny Hotel Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Pittsburgher Hotel Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, and Sheraton Mid-Continent Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. The URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF PITTSBURGH, a Pennsylvania corporation, and Leon Falk, Jr., Joseph S. Wohl and Golden Triangle Motor Hotel, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, and the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Pennsylvania.

February 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Malcolm Anderson, Charles R. Burke, of McCann, Garland, Ridall & Burke, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Louis Caplan, Earl F. Reed, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants Leon Falk, Jr., Joseph S. Wohl and Golden Triangle Motor Hotel, Inc.

Theodore L. Hazlett, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant Urban Redevelopment Authority.

David W. Craig, City Sol., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant City of Pittsburgh.

Lord, Day & Lord, by Charles W. Merritt, New York City, attorneys for American Hotel Ass'n, filed brief amicus curiae.


MARSH, District Judge.

The plaintiff hotel corporations bring this action to enjoin the defendants, Golden Triangle Motor Hotel, Inc. and Falk and Wohl, its organizers and principal stockholders, from erecting, maintaining and operating a hotel or transient housing facilities on a parcel of land (Parcel "B")1 in Pittsburgh owned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh (Authority).2

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