Lininger v. Knight

Charlotte Knight, individually and doing business as Overbrook Knight Klub, defendant in error, as plaintiff, filed her complaint in libel against Lininger. The parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant, and the defamatory article as set out in the complaint, will be designated as the petition. Trial to a jury was had on the issues as made by the complaint and answer, resulting in a verdict in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $10,500.

In substance, the allegations of the complaint were that, plaintiff was the owner and operator of the Over-brook Knight Klub in Jefferson county,…