DIGEST PUBLISHING COMPANY v. PERRY PUBLISHING CO.


284 S.W.2d 832 (1955)

The DIGEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. PERRY PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Funk, Chancellor & Marshall, Frankfort, for appellant.

Marion Rider, Henry Meigs, II, Frankfort, for appellee.


SIMS, Judge.

Appellant, The Digest Publishing Company, sued appellee, Perry Publishing Company, for $50,000 for libel. The trial judge sustained the motion of appellee to dismiss the complaint because it did not aver facts sufficient in law to state a cause of action. This appeal followed.

The complaint avers appellant is a corporation and publishes a newspaper in Franklin County and that appellee also publishes a newspaper in the same county, which are the...

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