Tierney v. Young

KENNAMER, District Judge.

Plaintiff in error filed suit in the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska, Norfolk Division, to recover damages for an alleged slander. At the conclusion of the testimony offered by the plaintiff, the District Judge sustained defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and the correctness of this ruling is the only question presented by the writ of error. The grounds stated by the trial court, upon which the motion for a directed verdict was sustained, was that there was not sufficient proof of the publication of the slander.

Plaintiff, a…