Renfro Drug Co. v. Lawson

Mr. Presiding Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of tlw Commission of Appeals, Section B.

The first of two questions certified by the Court of Civil Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial District is: “Did the Act of The Legislature of 1901, in defining civil libel so as to include the words ‘tending to blacken the memory of the dead,’ thereby create by implication a cause of action in favor of a father, not injured in his own reputation, to recover damages for a defamation of his deceased daughter?”

The manner in which the question arises and the relevant facts, disclosed by the certificate, the…