Legal Opinion
L.C.L. Theatres, Inc., a Texas Corporation v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 17, 1978No. 76-3421PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.
L.C.L. Theatres, Inc., a corporation owning or operating movie theatres in Texas (L.C.L.), and John G. Long, as president and major stockholder of the corporation wholly owned by himself and his family, appeal from an aggregate award of $429,200 to eleven moving picture distributors (distributors) for film rental owed, but not paid because of breach of contract and fraud accomplished by underreporting gross admission receipts for the period January 1, 1966-November 30, 1973.
The nineteen page opinion of the District Court is reported, L.C.L. Theatres, Inc. v. Columbia…
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