INSULL v. NEW YORK, WORLD-TELEGRAM CORPORATION

No. 12681.

273 F.2d 166 (1959)

Samuel INSULL, Plaintiff-appellant, v. NEW YORK, WORLD-TELEGRAM CORPORATION, a New York corporation, et al., Defendants-appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

December 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd E. Thompson, Kenneth J. Burns, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Keith F. Bode, Chicago, Ill., Thompson, Raymond, Mayer, Jenner & Bloomstein, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellant.

Howard Ellis, Don H. Reuben, James E. Beaver, Keith Masters, Chicago, Ill., Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellee.

Before SCHNACKENBERG, KNOCH and CASTLE, Circuit Judges.


SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.

Samuel Insull, herein called plaintiff, a citizen and resident of Illinois, brought an action for libel in an Illinois state court against the corporate owners and publishers of publications described as Scripps-Howard daily newspapers, and the individual editors thereof.1 No defendant is a citizen or resident of Illinois. Charles T. Lucey, the author of the libelous...

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