Legal Opinion

Butler v. Evening Post Pub. Co.

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided November 8, 1906No. 631PublishedCited by 8 opinions

In Error to the Circuit Court, of the United States for the District of South Carolina, at Charleston.

1Opinion of the Court

BOYD, District Judge.

On the ■ 8th of March, 1904, the plaintiffs, Frank E. Butler and Annie Butler, his wife, brought a suit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina against the Evening Post Publishing -Company. The plaintiffs are citizens-and' residents of the state of New Jersey, and-the defendant a corporation under the laws of South Carolina with its principal business in the city of Charleston in said state. On the 6th of June, 1904, the plaintiffs filed their complaint and alleged, as their cause- of action, the publication in' a newspaper called the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mutual Life Insurance v. HillmonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  2. Clay v. FreemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1886

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Lumiansky v. TessierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
  2. Adler v. SeamanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1920
  3. Signal Mountain Portland Cement Company v. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1944
  4. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. WillinghamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  5. United Verde Copper Co. v. JordanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1926

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