MacRAE v. AFRO-AMERICAN COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 18822.

172 F.Supp. 184 (1959)

Mary M. MacRAE v. AFRO-AMERICAN COMPANY, a Maryland Corporation.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

April 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence H. Eldredge, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Francis W. Sullivan, Sydney C. Orlofsky, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


GRIM, District Judge.

In this libel action plaintiff has a verdict in her favor in the sum of $50,000 against defendant, a newspaper publisher. Defendant's motion for judgment in its favor or in the alternative for a new trial presents the question now before the court.

A newspaper article in defendant's newspaper in reference to the death of plaintiff's daughter, who was a student at Barnard College in New York City, constitutes the alleged defamatory statement...

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