Associated Cinemas of America, Inc. v. World Amusement Co.

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

The parties to this cause are corporate enterprises, plaintiff’s business being that of procuring copyrights of and distributing to theatre owners moving picture films, largely of foreign make; defendant’s business is that of operating a moving picture theatre in Minneapolis known as the World Theatre.

The action is founded upon three contracts entered into on October 6, 1932. Each contract represented a separate cause of action founded upon defendant’s failure to exhibit the film of the play therein identified by appropriate copyright name. As a matter of fact there…