Fisher v. Myers

This action for libel was commenced and tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, at Independence. Josephine Myers, Okie Myers, John W. Truesdale, John P. Austin, W.W. Grow, C.L. Stange, John H. McGuire and Edith E. Ambruster, were made defendants. The verdict of the jury was against all the defendants for $50,000 actual and $75,000 punitive damages. The defendants filed separate motions for a new trial; the motion of defendant Ambruster was sustained and the other motions overruled. Whereupon the plaintiff dismissed as to defendant Ambruster and from the judgment entered against them in…