Pottstown Daily News Publishing Co. v. Pottstown Broadcasting Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,
Pottstown Daily News Publishing Company (News Company), the publisher of the “Pottstown Mercury”, a newspaper, instituted an action in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County against the Pottstown Broadcasting Company (Broadcasting Company), the owner of WPAZ, a radio station, to enjoin the latter “from any further appropriation of [News Company’s] local news stories without its permission or authorization.”
The gist of the News Company’s complaint is that its newspaper and the radio station both “disseminate news to the same general…
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