Morning Journal Ass'n v. Duke
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review a judgment of the United States Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, in favor of defendant in error, who was plaintiff below. The action was for libel, and the verdict of the jury awarded $30,000 damages.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon writ of error to review a judgment of the United States Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, in favor of defendant in error, who was plaintiff below. The action was for libel, and the verdict of the jury awarded $30,000 damages. A motion was made for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was excessive, whereupon the trial judge carefully reviewed the testimony and the record as it was presented to the .jury, and reached the conclusion that “although the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtEacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Many ■of the assignments of error are concerned with propositions which have already been considered and passed upon by this court in other causes; such' assignments may therefore be disposed of by a brief reference to .the earlier decisions. It will facilitate the presentation of the cause to discuss the assignments which have been argued here in a somewhat different order from that in which they are presented on the briefs.
1. It is contended that the court erred in refusing to permit the jury to construe the article. This assignment of error is based upon…
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- Press Pub. Co. v. McDonaldCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1894
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