INSURANCE RESEARCH SERV. v. ASSOCIATES FINANCE CORP.

No. 1921.

134 F.Supp. 54 (1955)

INSURANCE RESEARCH SERVICE, Inc., Plaintiff, v. ASSOCIATES FINANCE CORPORATION, Protective Insurance Agency, Inc., and Charles Burkhalter, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

July 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Roberts and C. Allen High, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

James M. Swiggart, James Clarence Evans, Thomas M. Evans, and Lewis S. Pope, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.


WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.

This is an action of libel predicated upon two letters written by defendant Burkhalter while in the employment of defendants, Associates Finance Corporation and Protective Insurance Agency, Inc.

The plaintiff contends that the two letters, one dated November 10, 1953, and the other November 13, 1953, were libelous per se, that they were duly published, that they were written by Burkhalter in the course of his employment by...

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