Monocacy Broadcasting Co. v. Prall

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia granting a motion of the appellee to dismiss a bill of complaint filed by appellant. The appellant was plaintiff below, the Federal Communications Commission was defendant, and the parties will be so named in this opinion. ■

It was alleged in substance in the plaintiff’s bill that on June 7, 1935 the plaintiff, the Monocacy Broadcasting Company, a corporation, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a permit to construct a new broadcasting…