MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR CO. v. CHAPMAN

No. 6062.

62 F.2d 565 (1933)

MEMPHIS PRESS-SCIMITAR CO. v. CHAPMAN.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

January 10, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. G. Evans, of Memphis, Tenn. (Sivley, Evans & McCadden, of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Ben Goodman, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn., and L. G. Fant, Jr., of Holly Springs, Miss. (Julian C. Wilson and Wilson, Kyser, Armstrong & Allen, all of Memphis, Tenn., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MOORMAN, HICKENLOOPER, and SIMONS, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment below awarding punitive and compensatory damages to the appellee resulting from a libel published in the appellant's newspaper. The appellee was the Deputy Prohibition Administrator for the Northern district of Mississippi, and a citizen of that state, and the appellant is a Tennessee corporation, having its principal place of business at Memphis. The questions presented relate to the right of the plaintiff below...

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