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SWEENEY v. ANDERSON

Nos. 2442-2450.

129 F.2d 756 (1942)

SWEENEY v. ANDERSON and eight other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

July 20, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee D. Seelig, of Kansas City, Mo. (Shannon, Seelig & Williams, of Kansas City, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Fred M. Harris, of Ottawa, Kan. (Doran, Kline, Cosgrove, Jeffrey & Russell, of Topeka, R. C. Russell, of Great Bend, Kan., Trinkle, Calihan & Tate, of Garden City, Kan., B. W. Kelsey, of Ottawa, Kan., and J. B. McKay, of Eldorado, Kan., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and HUXMAN, Circuit Judges, and SAVAGE, District Judge.

SAVAGE, District Judge.

The appellant, Martin L. Sweeney, a Congressman from the State of Ohio, on December 21, 1939, instituted nine separate actions against the appellees, newspaper publishers, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. In each case Sweeney sought to recover a judgment for damages in the sum of $50,000 on account of alleged libel in publishing a newspaper article on December...

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