Caller Times Pub. Co. v. Chandler

Dr. C. C. Chandler brought this action for libel against Caller Times Publishing Company, a corporation, and W. G. Kinsolving, its editor and publisher, for actual and exemplary damages alleged to have been sustained by him on account of the publication of a series of news items in the Corpus Christi (morning) Caller and Corpus Christi (evening) Times, both owned by the corporation. Upon a peremptory instruction that portions of the publications were libelous per se, without regard to the truth thereof, and entitled Dr. Chandler to damage in "some" amount, the jury found for him in the sum of…