Binderup v. Pathe Exchange, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
RROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. • Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming, for want of jurisdiction in the District Court, a-judgment of the latter whictrdismissed, upon a directed verdict, an action-for damages under § 7 of the Sherman Act.
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RROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. • Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming, for want of jurisdiction in the District Court, a-judgment of the latter whictrdismissed, upon a directed verdict, an action-for damages under § 7 of the Sherman Act. The court below overlooked the following allegations of the complaint: That the usual course of business was for the contracts to be made in New York prior to the time the films left the New York factories; that after the films reached the Omaha agents, they continued to move from exhibitor to exhibitor…
1Opinion of the Court
. Mr. Justice Sutherland
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This action was brought under the provisions of § 7 of the Act of Congress of July 2,-1890, commonly called the Anti-Trust Act, c, 647, 26 Stat. 210. The complaint is long, but the allegations necessary to be considered here may be summarized as follows
Plaintiff in error, a resident of the State of Nebraska, hereafter called' the “ exhibitor,” owned a moving picture theater at Minden, in that State, and operated as lessee theaters in other places, to all of which, including his own, he supplied moving picture films and advertís- ing…
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