The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants (1912)

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42 OEIGINAL PETITION. 8. That the United States may have such other and further reUef as the nature of the case may require and the court may deem proper in the premises. To the end, therefore, that the United States of America may obtain the reUef to which it is justly entitled in the premises, may it please your honors to grant unto it writs of subpoena directed to the said defendants: Motion Picture Patents Company, General Film Company, the Biograph Company, Thomas A. Edison (Inc.), Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, the Kalem. Company (Inc.), George Kleine, Lubin Manufacturing Company, Melies Manufacturing Company, Pathe Freres, Selig Polyscope Company, Yitagraph Company of America, Armat Moving Picture Com^pany, Frank L. Dyer, Henry N. Marvin, J. J. Kennedy, William Pelzer, Samuel Long, J. A. Berst, Siegm.und Lubin, Gaston Mehes, Albert E. Smith, George K. Spoor, W. N. Selig, and each and every one of them, commanding them and each of them to appear herein and answer, but not under oath (answer under oath being hereby expressly waived), the allegations contained in the foregoing petition and abide by and perform such orders and decree as the court may make in the premises. John C. Swartley, United States Attorney, George W. Wickersham, Attorney General. James A. Fowler, Assistant to the Attorney General. Edwin P. Grosvenor, Special Assistant to the Attorney General.