Washington Post Co. v. Chaloner
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action of libel. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an action for libel.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supremo Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action of libel. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an action for libel. The article complained of ivas published by tlie defendant in the Washington Post of April 3, 1909, and is, as pleaded: “John Armstrong Chai oner (Chanler) (meaning the plaintiff) brother of Lewis Stuyvesant Chaulei-, of New York, and former husband of Amelio Rives, the authoress, now Princess Troubetskoy, is recuperating at Shade-land, the country home of Major Thomas L.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smyth
The first question presented is whether or not the publication was ás a matter of law libelous per se. This is foreclosed by *71our decision on tbe fonncr appeal, which was binding on tlio lower court and is equally binding on this court, as the law of ihe case. The circumstances in which the subject was first presented to us have not been changed. The language construed in the declaration at that time and from which we drew the legal conclusion that it was libelous per se is the same language upon which we are asked to pass judgment now. "Where this is so, the former judgment must be treated as…
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