Legal Opinion
Momand v. Twentieth-Century Fox Film Corporation
District Court, W.D. Oklahoma
Decided March 13, 1941No. 6516, 6517PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURRAH, United States Circuit Judge,
assigned and sitting as United States District Judge.
The plaintiff brings this suit as the assignee of certain causes of action, created and granted by Section 7 of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 15. The defendants have challenged the right of the plaintiff to maintain the alleged causes of action, by a motion to dismiss. They contend that the alleged causes of action sound in tort and plaintiff cannot maintain the suits as assignee because Oklahoma law forbids the assignment of a cause of action sounding in tort.
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2Cases cited55 opinions
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- Swift v. TysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1842
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- Board of Comm'rs of Jackson Cty. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of AtlantaSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- Electric Theater Co. v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.District Court, W.D. Missouri · 1953
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