Blake v. Hearst Publications Incorporated

Plaintiff by the instant action sought damages from defendants in the sum of $160,000 for the publication of alleged libelous matter consisting of a cartoon strip entitled “Betrayal from the East.”

The original complaint alleged that the defendants, Hearst Publications Incorporated, and King Features Syndicate, had libeled the plaintiff by publishing in the Los Angeles Examiner, a newspaper of general circulation of more than half a million readers in the city of and county of Los Angeles, a series of eight separate cartoon strips each entitled “Betrayal from the East,” consisting of a series…