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PARTIN v. MICHAELS ART BRONZE CO.

No. 10866.

202 F.2d 541 (1953)

PARTIN v. MICHAELS ART BRONZE CO., Inc.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 13, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Vaira, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Premo J. Columbus, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.

Rex Rowland, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Smith, Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald & Eckert, Pittsburgh, Pa., Hulse Hays, Jr., Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and GOODRICH and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for libel and the question involved on this appeal is the jurisdiction of a federal court to hear the case. The resort to the federal court is on the basis of diversity only, the defendant being a Kentucky corporation and the plaintiff a citizen of Pennsylvania. The defendant in Kentucky wrote a letter which, for the purpose of this case, may be assumed defamatory. The letter was addressed to someone in New Jersey, but the...

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