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CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. VAUGHAN

No. 15201.

278 F.2d 23 (1960)

CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellant, v. Harry H. VAUGHAN, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Philip H. Strubing, Philadelphia, of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. David C. Acheson and John H. Schafer, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant. Mr. Jonathan W. Sloat, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Mr. Byron N. Scott, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Hyman Smollar, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Chief Judge, and EDGERTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Curtis Publishing Company appeals from a judgment entered in a libel action after a jury awarded the appellee compensatory damages in the sum of $10,000. Vaughan's complaint had charged that appellant had libeled him in the November 3, 1956 issue of its weekly magazine "The Saturday Evening Post."1

We are concerned solely with appellant's claims that the District...

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