de Festetics v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n

On a demurrer to the complaint for insufficiency the defendant claims that the article published was not necessarily libelous per se, and that, therefore, the plaintiff should have alleged special damage. The article of which the plaintiff complains referred to the arrest of her husband, Gyula de Festetics, on a charge of kidnapping, and contains this statement: “At one time he brought suit against his wife’s attorney for alienating her affections, and last October he brought a divorce suit, which has not been decided.” I do not find any ambiguity in this statement. The question is not…