WALKER v. SAVELL

No. 20682.

335 F.2d 536 (1964)

Edwin A. WALKER, Appellant, v. Van H. SAVELL and the Associated Press, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 11, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe W. Matthews, Dallas, Tex., John W. Capers, Jackson, Miss., Murray L. Williams, Water Valley, Miss., Clyde J. Watts, Looney, Watts, Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Oklahoma City, Okl., for appellant.

Earl T. Thomas, Jack W. Brand, Jackson, Miss., Fred B. Smith, Ripley, Miss., Robert G. Gillespie, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for the Associated Press, appellee, Wells, Thomas & Wells, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and POPE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

General Walker appeals from an order of the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi quashing the service of process and dismissing a complaint alleging libel on the ground that The Associated Press was not amenable to service under the provisions of Section 1437, Mississippi Code Annotated, 1942.1

The suit was originally filed by appellant Walker in...

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