John Wright & Associates, Inc. v. City of Red Wing

Murphy, Justice.

This action was brought to permanently enjoin the defendants from operating a motion picture theater in the municipal auditorium in the city of Red Wing. Named with the city as defendants are its mayor and members of the city council and five members of “The T. B. Sheldon Auditorium Board.” The plaintiff is a taxpayer and a competing motion picture operator in Red Wing. The appeal is from a judgment entered pursuant to an order granting summary judgment to the defendants and denying the same to the plaintiffs.

The litigation grows out of the alleged illegal use of auditorium…