SHEEHAN v. TOBIN


326 Mass. 185 (1950)

93 N.E.2d 524

CHARLES L. SHEEHAN vs. DANIEL J. TOBIN (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 30, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F.P. Garland, for the defendant.

A. Brogna, (P.E. Troy with him,) for the plaintiffs.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


COUNIHAN, J.

These are actions of tort for libel arising out of an article in "The International Teamster," the official magazine of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, a labor union, hereinafter referred to as the Brotherhood, of which the defendant was the general president and of whose magazine he was the editor. The plaintiffs were members of Local 25, a subordinate...

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