Gilligham v. Ray
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Muskegon; Sessions, J. Bill by Albert J. Gilligham against Carl Ray and W. S. Waterman to enjoin the exhibition of certain moving pictures. From an order overruling a demurrer to the bill, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Blair, 0. J.
Defendants appeal from an order overruling their demurrer to the complainant’s bill of complaint. The bill of complaint sets up that, under a contract with the Chicago Film Exchange, the owner and controller of “the original Nelson-Gans fight film pictures taken at Colma, Cal.,” complainant acquired the exclusive right to show said pictures on or before the 26th day of November, 1908; that complainant had made arrangements at great expense to exhibit said pictures at the Grand Opera House at Muskegon on Thursday afternoon and evening, November 26, 1908, and that no one else had a…
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