Union Associated Press v. Press Publishing Co.

The actions are for libel, founded upon the publication by the defendant in its newspaper “ The World,” of an article charging the respective plaintiffs with the execution of a fraudulent scheme whereby news, in the course of transmission to the Associated. Press, was secured by them by means of “ wiretapping.”

In each action the defense, to which a reply is now sought, proceeds upon the fact that in actions brought by these plaintiffs against the Associated Press, in the .United States Circuit Court, upon pleadings based upon the act of that defendant in causing this very publication to be…