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Show EES THERE IS FILMCiBli New York Firm Files Damage Suits for $1,800,000 By International Newt Service. NEW iOBK, Dec 26 Charging that pract cally cverv mot on p cture firn n the United States is n a com b nat on wh ch olates the Sherman ant trust law the Ureater New York Film Bantal company today began a $1 800 000 suit against this alleged Aim bination The plaintiff alleges that the defendants control 9o per cent of the ( motion picture business of the country and names them as followB General Film company Mot on Pic ture Patents company Vitagraph Com pany of America American ilutoscope and Biograph company Ed son Manu factunng company, T A Edison com pany Incorporated, Kalem companj Pathe Freres Lubin Manufacturing company Gaston Mehes George Kleine Essanay Film Manufacturing company., Sehg Polyscope company Armat Mov ng Picture company Frank L. Dyer Henry J Marvro George K. Spoor William k Selig and others. Many of these defendants are also defendants m the government a Sher man law action to dissolve the so called f Ira trust The plaint f f charges that it was or ganized n 1907 for the purpose of renting and selling films and mot on p cture mach nes and bv 1908 had bu It up a thriving bus hess when the alleged illegal combination was fomed by theater license agreement wh ch the complaint charges was merely a cloak and under cover of which the defendants earned on their illegal busi ness. The plaint ff estimates its losses at $600 000 and aslis for three times th s bum as damages under the treble dam ago clause of the Sherman law |