Oklahoma Publishing Co. v. Kendall

W. L. Kendall commenced this action in the district court of Garfield county, against the Oklahoma Publishing Company, a corporation, for an alleged libel published in the Oklahoma City Times on February 11, 1919, of and concerning the plaintiff as superintendent of the Institute for the Feeble Minded, a state institution at Enid, Okla. The case was tried to a jury, and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $10,000 actual damages and $2,500 exemplary damages. From said judgment, the defendant appealed. For convenience the parties will be referred to herein as they were in the lower…