FRANKLIN THEATRE CORPORATION v. City of Minneapolis

Appeal from an order denying a new trial and from a declaratory judgment determining that plaintiff-appellant, Franklin Theatre Corporation, was not entitled to relief from the Minneapolis City Council’s refusal to grant it a motion picture theater license.

The application for a transfer of the theater license from the theater’s previous owners to plaintiff was first placed before the Licenses Committee of the Minneapolis City Council on August 12, 1970. The committee’s recommendation that the transfer be denied was approved by the council on September 11, 1970.

In the interval between the…