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SWEENEY v. PHILADELPHIA RECORD CO.

Nos. 7799-7801.

126 F.2d 53 (1942)

SWEENEY v. PHILADELPHIA RECORD CO. SAME v. CHRONICLE & NEWS PUB. CO. SAME v. STEINMAN & STEINMAN, Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 25, 1942.

As Amended February 27, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold D. Saylor, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Robert T. McCracken, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Butz, Steckel & Rupp, of Allentown, Pa., James J. O'Brien, of Philadelphia, Pa., and John E. Malone, of Lancaster, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges.

BIGGS, Circuit Judge.

In each of these cases the defendants filed and the court below granted motions to dismiss the complaints. The appeals are from these orders. The complaints are substantially the same and endeavor to state causes of action in libel based upon publications of the same syndicated article.1 The question for our determination is whether the complaints do state causes of action.

Each of the complaints alleges that...

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