Legal Opinion
Moorhead v. Curtis Pub. Co.
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided January 22, 1942No. 364PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, District Judge.
This action is before the Court on the defendant’s motion to quash the service of summons herein, and the return of such service.
The plaintiff William C. Moorhead filed this action in the Jefferson Circuit Court at Louisville, Kentucky, against the defendant The Curtis Publishing Company for $10,-000 compensatory damages and an additional sum of $10,000 as punitive damages by reason of an alleged libel published in the September 14, 1940, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, a weekly periodical published by the defendant with wide circulation throughout the United…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Peterson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Cannon v. Time, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1940
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