Buffalo Branch, Mutual Film Corp. v. Breitinger
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 45, 46 and 47, January T., 1915, by plaintiffs, from decrees of C. P. No. 5, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, Nos. 629, 630 and 631, refusing an injunction, in cases of Buffalo Branch, Mutual Film Corporation; and Mutual Film Corporation of Pennsylvania and Interstate Films Company v, J. Louis Breitinger, chief censor, and E. C. Niver, assistant censor, constituting the State Board of Censors; and Albert E. Brown, William Sachsenmaier, and Vernon R. Carrick,…
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Appeals, Nos. 45, 46 and 47, January T., 1915, by plaintiffs, from decrees of C. P. No. 5, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, Nos. 629, 630 and 631, refusing an injunction, in cases of Buffalo Branch, Mutual Film Corporation; and Mutual Film Corporation of Pennsylvania and Interstate Films Company v, J. Louis Breitinger, chief censor, and E. C. Niver, assistant censor, constituting the State Board of Censors; and Albert E. Brown, William Sachsenmaier, and Vernon R. Carrick, trading as the Overbfook Theatre, v. J. Louis Breitinger, chief censor, and E. C. Niver, assistant censor, constituting…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
These are three separate bills in equity brought by the Buffalo Branch, Mutual Film Corporation; Mutual Film Corporation of Pennsylvania and Interstate Films Company; and the Overbrook Theatre, respectively, against J. Louis Breitinger, chief censor, and E. C. Niver, assistant censor, constituting the State Board of Censors. The bills aver that for the reasons therein set forth the Act of June 19,1911, P. L. 1067, regulating the exhibiting or using of moving-pictures and stereopticon views, offends both the federal and State Constitutions, and pray that the act be declared…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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