Enterprise Co. v. Ellis

O’QUINN, Justice.

Suit by appellee against appellant for damages for an alleged libel growing out of a publication appearing in the Beaumont Journal, a daily newspaper published and circulated by appellant on December 18, 1933. Appellee’s petition set out the publication complained of in haec verba, which reads:

“Pet Goose Lost For Two Days Found , In Oven.”

“How a goose was reported lost by its owner for two days then to be found by two Beaumont detectives calmly sitting in an oven of the owner’s stove was officially reported at police Headquarters Sunday.

“Mrs. J. O. Ellis, 1408 Forsythe…