Fitzsimmons v. New York State Athletic Commission

This is an application for an injunction pendente lite in an action in which the plaintiff seeks to have the defendants restrained from enforcing a certain alleged order addressed to the Atlantic Garden Athletic Club prohibiting it from allowing the plaintiff to engage in a boxing contest under its auspices. The papers now before the court show that the plaintiff has engaged in the vocation of boxing for the greater part of his life; that he has engaged in about 370 ring contests and has held the title “ champion of the world ” and is now “ the light heavyweight champion boxer of the world.”…