Sanders v. Evening News Assn.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on defendants’ motion dismissing plaintiff’s declaration. The cause arose from the alleged libelous nature of certain articles written by defendant Tendler and published in a newspaper owned by defendant The Evening News Association. Defendant Tendler was a reporter and feature writer for the Detroit News and as such prepared a series of articles relating to certain practices then in vogue in some of the Detroit courts concerning releases granted to persons arrested for misdemeanors immediately after the arrest by police officers. This series of…