Tennant v. F. C. Whitney & Sons

The plaintiff, Tennant, a resident of Yakima, seeks recovery of damages from the defendants, F. C. Whitney and his sons, Prank and Albert Whitney, claimed to have been suffered by him as the result of a false and libelous editorial article published of and concerning him in the Yakima Independent, a weekly newspaper., as he alleges, published jointly by the defendants in Yakima. A trial upon the merits in the superior court for Yakima county, sitting with a jury, resulted in a verdict awarding to the plaintiff recovery in the sum of $2,500 against all of the defend ants, upon which a judgment…