Krone v. Snapout Forms Co.

Clarence F. Krone and Norman Brice, partners, plaintiffs below and appellants here, sued The Snapout Forms Company, defendant below and respondent here, for libel and prayed for $25,000 actual and $50,000 punitive damages. The verdict of the jury was for the defendant. From the adverse judgment plaintiffs appealed. We refer to the parties as plaintiffs and defendant.

Plaintiffs were engaged in selling printed business forms in St. Louis and vicinity. Defendant was a manufacturer in Ohio of printed business forms. The petition alleged that plaintiffs con-’ ducted “an independent jobbing…