Pollitt v. Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc.

Here are two appeals by Jesse M. Pollitt, Sheriff of Wicomico County, plaintiff, appellant, from judgments for costs entered for the Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc., defendant, appellee, as a result of the sustaining of general demurrers, to the plaintiff’s declarations in two cases for libel.

For the purposes of this case, the declaration in case No. 2133 alleges that the defendant falsely and maliciously printed an auditors’ report about the plaintiff in one of its newspapers called the “Salisbury Times”. The newspaper article carried the following words as here summarized. Better records…