United States v. Griffith Amusement Co.

VAUGHT, Chief Judge.

The complaint was filed April 28, 1939 and named as defendants: Griffith Amusement Company, Consolidated Theatres, Inc., R. E. Griffith Theatres Inc., Westex Theatres Inc., L. C. Griffith, H. J. Griffith and R. E. Griffith, together with eight major distributors as follows: Paramount Pictures, Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (Loew’s Inc.), RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Vitagraph, Inc., Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox United Artists Corporation and Columbia Pictures Corporation. The complaint alleged:

That Griffith Amusement Company,…