Jones v. American Guild of Variety Artists

WOOD, District Judge.

The complaint herein was filed on June 15, 1961. Approximately one year prior thereto, (June 24, 1960), the same plaintiffs filed a complaint against the same defendants in Common Pleas Court No. 7 in Philadelphia County. That suit is pending in the State Court. Generally speaking, it involves the same subject matter as the suit thereafter brought in this Federal Court.

The defendants moved to dismiss the complaint in this Court on the ground, inter alia., that the same questions were pending in the State Court. On June 29, 1961, our late colleague Judge Egan filed an…