Kenner v. Milner

Le BLANC, Judge.

This is a suit for damages for an alleged libel in which the plaintiff’s demand against the defendant was originally for the sum of $30,000 but which he reduced to $2,000 by having a remittitur entered for the difference of $28,000. Plaintiff was formerly a practicing attorney at law in this State but was disbarred by judgment of the Supreme Court as appears from the reported decision published in Re Kenner, 178 La. 774, 152 So. 520. The defendant is also an attorney at law still engaged in practice. Both are residents of St. Tammany Parish in this State.

The libel charged by…