Post Pub. Co. v. Butler
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARDS, Circuit Judge.
This was an action for libel. There was a verdict and judgment, to reverse which this proceeding is prosecuted. On August 11, 1903, the Cincinnati Post published the telegram printed below in the first column, which was sent it by the Scripps-McCrae Press Association. The next day it pub*724lished the telegram printed in the second column, which was furnished it by the same association.
The action was based tipon the first publication. The second was relied upon by the defendant as a retraction. The plaintiff, Annie Butler, wife of Frank E. Butler, is a woman of unblemished…
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- Knights Templars' & Masons' Life Indemnity Co. v. JarmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Park v. Detroit Free Press Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1888
- Osborn v. Leach.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
- Post Pub. Co. v. HallamCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1893
- Allen v. Pioneer-Press Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
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