Twohig v. Boston Herald-Traveler Corp.

The plaintiff appeals from orders sustaining the demurrers of the defendants to the plaintiff’s declaration in tort for libel. The demurrers are identical and rest on the ground that no cause of action is stated. We treat them as one.

The declaration alleges that the defendant corporation on September 13, 1962, published in The Boston Herald an article written by one of the individual defendants. In the article was the following statement: “The Senate president has reversed the anti-union charge Twohig is spreading about him by resurrecting some of Twohig’s votes against Labor when he served…