REYNOLDS v. PEGLER

No. 193, Docket 23329.

223 F.2d 429 (1955)

Quentin REYNOLDS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Westbrook PEGLER, The Hearst Corporation and Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 7, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim, New York City (Louis Nizer, Walter S. Beck, Paul Martinson and Seymour Shainswit, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

McCauley & Henry, New York City (Milton Pollack, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before FRANK and MEDINA, Circuit Judges, and BRENNAN, District Judge.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel action based upon a column of defendant Westbrook Pegler, published on November 29, 1949, by defendant Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., owner of the New York Journal-American, a New York City newspaper, which had purchased the article from defendant Hearst Corporation, whose King Features Syndicate division had syndicated the article not only to the Journal-American but to a large number of other publications throughout...

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