Legal Opinion

Post Pub. Co. v. Murray

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided March 7, 1916No. 1145PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Frederic Dodge, Judge. Suit by the Post' Publishing Company against William F. Murray, as Postmaster. From a decree for defendant, plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

ALDRICH, District Judge.

This is an equity proceeding m the District Court, in which the Post Publishing Company asked to be relieved from an order of the Boston postmaster, made under direction of the Department at Washington, whereby certain issues of the Boston Post were excluded from the Boston post office and from the mails. The Boston Post is a newspaper published in Boston.

On May 1, and May 2, 1915, it published 'a certain advertisement in which were represented pictures of headless women shoppers. The advertisement was in part as follows:

“Attention, Ladies!
“During this week Post…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Federal Communications Commission v. American Broadcasting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1954
  2. Commonwealth v. WallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
  3. State v. HundlingSupreme Court of Iowa · 1936
  4. Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. v. GruberCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1936
  5. Dorman, Et Vir. v. Publix-Saenger-Sparks Theatres, Inc.Supreme Court of Florida · 1938

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