Woollcott v. Shubert
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Lee Shubert and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of May, 1915, granting plaintiff’s motion for an injunction pendente lite.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The plaintiff is a newspaper writer and dramatic critic. The defendants are engaged in the business of conducting theatres and other places of amusement in the city of New York and elsewhere. Owing to the unfavorable character of some of the criticisms written and printed by plaintiff concerning certain plays produced by defendants, the latter have refused to permit him to enter any theatre controlled by them and threaten so to prevent him in the future. The reason given by defendants for so excluding plaintiff is that, as they consider, his articles were not fair reviews or…
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