Legal Opinion

Columbia Pictures Corp. v. Grengs

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided June 23, 1958No. Nos. 12210-12215PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

Each of the six motion picture distributors, involved in this appeal, commenced these diversity of citizenship cases against defendant motion picture exhibitors to recover actual and punitive damages claimed to have been occasioned by a conspiracy to defraud each plaintiff, respectively, in which the defendants named in each case were charged with having participated. The bare bones of plaintiff’s allegations can be reported beginning with the statement that during the period March 1, 1947 to April 16, 1954, plaintiff had licensed the exhibition of numerous motion…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Saint Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Thomson v. GaskillSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. Smithers v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
  4. Bowman v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1885
  5. Calhoun v. Kentucky-West Virginia Gas Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1948

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Fisher v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1964
  2. Howard T. Fisher v. Hartford Accident And Indemnity CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1964
  3. Love ex rel. Love v. BudaiCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
  4. Columbia Pictures Corporation v. Sheldon M. Grengs, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation v. Sheldon M. Grengs, Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corp. v. Sheldon M. Grengs, Rko Teleradio Pictures, Inc. v. Sheldon M. Grengs, Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. v. Sheldon M. Grengs, Loew's Incorporated v. Sheldon M. GrengsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1958
  5. Love v. BudaiCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981

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