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CHALONER v. WASHINGTON POST CO.

No. 4182.

6 F.2d 712 (1925)

CHALONER v. WASHINGTON POST CO.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided June 1, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. F. Colladay, H. S. Barger, and C. C. Cooper, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., and T. J. Randolph, of Charlottesville, Va., for appellant.

W. J. Lambert, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, rendered on a verdict in the sum of one cent damages, in an action for libel in which appellant, Chaloner, sued the Washington Post, for the publication of an article in which it was stated that plaintiff shot and killed one John Gillard, while the latter was abusing his wife, who had taken refuge in Chaloner's house, "Merrie Mills," near Cobham, Va.

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