Wright v. Afro-American Co.

The question that we are asked to determine in this case is the correctness of the lower court’s ruling in sustaining a demurrer to the appellant’s amended declaration. The declaration was filed by Richard R. Wright, Sr., Richard R. Wright, Jr., and Lillian M. Wright, individually and as co-partners, trading as the Citizens and Southern Banking Company, against The Afro-American Company, a body corporate. It alleges that the defendant owns and publishes a weekly newspaper in Baltimore City which circulates throughout the State of Maryland and other nearby states; that the plaintiffs,…