Paramount Film Distributing Corp. v. Ram

WYCHE, Chief Judge.

These eight separate suits by the plaintiffs, distributors of motion pictures, against the defendants, exhibitors of motion pictures operating a circuit of theaters, are brought to recover damages for conspiracy sounding in fraud and deceit.

The cause is before me upon defendants’ motion for a more definite statement of plaintiff’s cause of action in each of these cases, and plaintiffs’ motion for an order for the production of certain documents, papers, books, accounts, and records of the defendants, more particularly described in the motion itself.

Under Rule 12(e),…