Legal Opinion
Kalisthenic Exhibition Co. v. Emmons
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 27, 1916No. 1152PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine; Clarence Hale, Judge. Suit by the Kalisthenic Exhibition Company, Incorporated, against Willis T. Emmons, Collector. From a decree (225 Fed. 902) dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The statutes on which this case rests are the Act of July 31, 1912, 37 Stat. 240, and the Customs Act of October 3, 1913, c. 16, par. 380, 38 Stat. 151. The párts-necessary to be cited from the earlier act are as follows;
“It shall be unlawful for any person * * * to bring or cause to be • brought into the United States from abroad any film or other pictorial representation of any prize fight or encounter of pugilists, under whatever name, which is designed to be used or may be used for purposes of public exhibition.” Section 1.
The statute contains other language intended…
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