Brattle Films, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Safety

The plaintiff, which is engaged in the business of exhibiting motion pictures, brings this bill in equity against the commissioner of public safety of the Commonwealth and the city manager of the city of Cambridge to obtain a binding declaration as to the plaintiff’s right to exhibit on Sunday a certain motion picture film entitled “Miss Julie.” A demurrer to the bill was sustained, a final decree was entered dismissing the bill, and the plaintiff appealed.

Among the allegations of the bill are these. On three occasions the plaintiff applied to the defendant commissioner for his written…