INSULL v. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM CORPORATION

Nos. 58 C 108, 58 C 150, 58 C 151.

172 F.Supp. 615 (1959)

Samuel INSULL, Plaintiff, v. NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM CORPORATION, a corporation, Roy W. Howard, Memphis Publishing Company, a corporation, Edward J. Meeman, Indianapolis Times Publishing Company, a corporation, Walter Leckrone, E. W. Scripps Company, a corporation, Louis B. Seltzer, Dick Thornburg, Herald-Post Publishing Co., a corporation, Edward M. Pooley, Knoxville News-Sentinel Publishing Company, a corporation, Loye W. Miller, Pittsburgh Press Company, a corporation, Weidman W. Forster, New Mexico State Tribune Company, a corporation, Dan Burroughs, Charles T. Lucey, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Houghton Mifflin Company, a corporation, Kenneth E. Trombley, and Harper & Brothers, a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thompson, Raymond, Mayer, Jenner & Bloomstein, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Elmer Gertz, Bell, Boyd, Marshall & Lloyd, Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MINER, District Judge.

These are three actions to recover compensatory and punitive damages for alleged libels published by ten corporate and twelve individual defendants. They were originally filed as one action in the Circuit Court of Cook County on December 30, 1957 (Law No. 57 C 18759), and subsequently removed to this Court by defendants pursuant to 28 U.S.C. (1952 ed.) § 1441.

Plaintiff is an Illinois resident. No defendant is a resident of Illinois...

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