General Outdoor Advertising Co. v. Department of Public Works

These are fifteen suits in equity. The plaintiffs are resident and nonresident individuals, firms and corporations, all licensed under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 93, § 29, and engaged in the business of outdoor advertising. That business is the procurement of locations on private *157property within public view for signs, billboards and other devices which the plaintiffs erect and maintain and upon which they rent space for advertising purposes to manufacturers, merchants and others, many of whom are doing business in other States as well as within the Commonwealth. The defendants in fourteen suits are…