Evening Post Co. v. Richardson

Opinion of the court hy

JUDGE BURNAM

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Boyle circuit court'. The ¡suit was brought by the appellee, Yernon Richardson, against the appellant, the Evening Post Company, to 'recover damages for having falsely and maliciously published in the Evening Post, a newspaper owned and published by the appellant, a communication from Thomas M. Oreen which contained the following words:

“It was in' the Fourth precinct in Danville that the effulgent luminary, Yernon Richardson, discovered that Taylor’s majority could be reduced twenty-four votes by throwing…