General Theatres, Inc. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.

SYMES, District Judge.

The plaintiffs are engaged in the business of moving picture exhibitors, and operate six or seven of the largest moving picture houses in the city of Denver. The first seven defendants may be described as distributors, that is to say, they are corporations which make and lease or rent for exhibition purposes films and advertising matter that are necessary and customarily used in the operation of moving picture theaters. The next ten individual defendants named are members of the so-called Denver Code Grievance Board, a body created pursuant to the National Industrial…