Message Photo-Play Co. v. Bell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, George H. Bell, as commissioner of licenses of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of June, 1917, granting plaintiff’s motion for an injunction pendente lite enjoining and restraining him from in any manner interfering with plaintiff’s exhibition of a moving picture film entitled “ Birth Control,” and from in any…
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Appeal by the defendant, George H. Bell, as commissioner of licenses of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of June, 1917, granting plaintiff’s motion for an injunction pendente lite enjoining and restraining him from in any manner interfering with plaintiff’s exhibition of a moving picture film entitled “ Birth Control,” and from in any manner revoking or threatening to revoke the license heretofore issued by him to one Anhalt as licensee of the Park Theatre…
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a suit in equity for a permanent injunction to the game effect as the temporary injunction contained in the injunction order from which the appeal is taken. The plaintiff shows by its complaint and affidavits, among other things, that it is engaged in manufacturing and producing motion picture films and in leasing and selling them; that it has manufactured and produced the motion picture film “ Birth Control ” and has arranged to produce the same at the Park *15Theatre and has at great expense advertised the presentation thereof; that the film consists of various episodes in…
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- Block v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
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