NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY v. CONNER

No. 18589.

291 F.2d 492 (1961)

NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. Eugene CONNER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Daly, New York City, T. Eric Embry, Roderick M. MacLeod, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Saul L. Sherman, New York City (Herbert Wechsler, Ronald S. Diana, New York City, Beddow, Embry & Beddow, Birmingham, Ala., Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

B. P. Gambrell, John E. Dougherty, Atlanta, Ga., Amicus Curiae, Atlanta Newspapers.

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, Howard Ellis, Don H. Reuben and George D. Newton, Jr., Amicus Curiae, Tribune Co., Chicago, Ill.

James E. Simpson, Francis H. Hare, Neal C. Newell, William L. Clark, Birmingham, Ala., Wm. Hugh McEniry, Bessemer, Ala., James A. Simpson, Francis H. Hare, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., J. Howard McEniry, Jr., Bessemer, Ala. (Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Hare, Wynn & Newell, Birmingham, Ala., McEniry, McEniry & McEniry, Bessemer, Ala., of counsel), for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, RIVES, Circuit Judge, and DE VANE, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion by appellants, The New York Times Company and Harrison Salisbury, residents of New York and Connecticut, respectively, to quash service of process in Alabama, perfected by the Alabama plaintiffs under the Alabama Substituted Service Statute, § 199(1), 1955 Cum.Sup. to Volume II, Code of Alabama, 1940, Tit. 7.1 We granted the motion for interlocutory appeal under...

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