Cresson v. Wortham-Carter Pub. Co.

Plaintiff in error, referred to as plaintiff here, sued defendant in error, called defendant herein, for damages alleged to have been sustained by him from the publication of a certain article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a newspaper published in the city of Fort Worth, Tex., which purported to be an account of a report of a certain committee appointed by the House of Representatives of the American Congress to investigate the escape of the notorious and skulking evader of the draft of young men for the army on May 20, 1920. The cause was submitted to a jury on special issues and on the…