Tademy v. Scott

RUSSELL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a resident of the State of Mississippi, instituted this action against the defendants, residents of the State of Georgia, seeking to recover damages for a libelous article alleged to have appeared in a paper published by the defendants. The complaint alleges that the defendants are engaged in the business of printing, publishing and circulating several newspapers which specialize in the printing, publishing and dissemination of news of and concerning negroes, and that “among the papers so printed, published and sold by said defendants is a newspaper known as…