Ellsworth v. Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc.

This is an action for libel and comes to this court upon appeal from an order of the-District Court overruling a demurrer to the complaint. The demurrer sets up that the complaint fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.

The complaint alleges the corporate character of the defendant; that, the defendant has for a period of forty years or more been engaged in the business of preparing, publishing, and circulating throughout the United States and Canada each year, a book known as “Martin-dale’s American Law Directory” in which the defendant purports to rate all practicing…