Ring v. Spina

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court vacating a temporary injunction and denying a motion for such injunction pending trial in an action for treble damages under the Sherman Act, as amended, 15 U.S.C.A. § 15, and for other relief. Defendants Spina, Heyman, and Hannan are authors of a theatrical production called “Stovepipe Hat.” The other defendants are Banker, agent of these authors, and The Dramatists’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America, Inc., an association said to include substantially all the playwrights in the country. Restraint of trade is…