Hart v. B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

By stipulation, the parties agreed to try these causes as one and to enter a judgment and decree accordingly. They were tried before the District Judge, a jury having been waived in the law action. The decision in each case depends principally upon the determination of whether the parties were engaged in interstate commerce in their respective business. They may be and will be considered in one opinion, and we shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendants as below.

Considering the facts most favorable to the plaintiff, the plaintiff’s business is said, to be that…