SWEENEY v. CALLER-TIMES PUB. CO.

No. 62.

41 F.Supp. 163 (1941)

SWEENEY v. CALLER-TIMES PUB. CO.

District Court, S. D. Texas, Corpus Christi Division.

August 21, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Hubbard, of Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiff.

Mobley, Roberts & Lockett, of Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendant.


ALLRED, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a congressman and member of the bar in the State of Ohio, brought this suit on December 6, 1939, against defendant, a Texas corporation, for damages for alleged libel in a syndicated column under the title "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round!" The case is almost identical with those brought in other states of the Union in which plaintiff, alleging no special damage, takes the position that the article is libelous per se. It reads (italicizing...

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