Cobb v. Oklahoma Publishing Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Oklahoma County; George W. Clark, Judge. Action by T. S. Cobb against the Oklahoma Publishing Company, a corporation, for libel. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
HARRISON, C.
This was an action by T. S. Cobb against the Oklahoma Publishing Company for libel in the publication of an article under the following headlines :
“Protection Against Guardians Sought.- — Indian Minors Being Systematically Robbed In Many Instances. — Aid of Legislature Will be Invoked. — Some Charges Already Preferred.”
The article in question contained a rather lengthy comment upon conditions claimed to be existing on the east side of the state relative to Indian minors being defrauded of their allotments, giving a number of instances in which fraud and graft was claimed…
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- State v. GreenburgSupreme Court of Kansas · 1898
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