Byers Theaters, Inc. v. Murphy

BARKSDALE, District Judge.

This is a civil action brought by plaintiff, Byers Theaters, Inc., which operates a motion picture theater in Norton, Virginia, and another in Appalachia, Virginia, against its competitor, W. K. Murphy, certain of his associates, and ten principal distributors of motion pictures such as Paramount Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, etc., alleging that defendants illegally combined and conspired to prevent plaintiff from competing with defendant Murphy in Appalachia by licensing all their commercially valuable pictures to defendant Murphy, and…