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HUNTER v. AFRO-AMERICAN COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY

Nos. 4761 and 4762.

133 F.Supp. 812 (1955)

W. J. HUNTER, Plaintiff, v. The AFRO-AMERICAN COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, a corporation, Defendant. PALMETTO STATE VOTERS ASSOCIATION, Inc., Plaintiff, v. The AFRO-AMERICAN COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Florence Division.

September 2, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett & Turnage, Florence, S. C., for plaintiff.

Harold R. Boulware, Columbia, S. C., Cobb, Howard & Hayes, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The foregoing two actions allege that the defendant caused or permitted to be published and circulated in its "South Carolina Edition" of "The Afro-American" certain defamatory and libelous statements, the source of which is attributed to one John H. McCray described in said newspaper as "Editor, South Carolina Edition". The actions were originally instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Darlington, and were removed to this...

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