Sample v. Bedenbaugh

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice Mendee R. Smith.

These three actions, identical except as to the name of the plaintiff, were commenced in the County of Saluda, on January 20, 1930, for damages for the utterance and publication in The Herald and News, a newspaper published in the County of Newberry and having a general and wide circulation in the County of Newberry and adjacent counties, of an alleged libelous communication.

The three cases were heard together in the Circuit Court and in this Court under a common transcript of record.

The case first stated…