Robinson v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Action by William E. Johnson against U. G. Robinson. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
William E. Johnson sued U. G. Robinson for libel and recovered a judgment. For some years prior to his resignation in September, 1911, the plaintiff was in the service of the Indian Bureau of the Interior Department as chief special officer for the suppression of liquor traffic among the Indians. At the time of the libelous publication he was in the employment of an organization known as the “Anti-Saloon League.” The defendant was the editor *673and publisher of the National Issue, a monthly paper devoted to the cause of national prohibition. The article complained of was…
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