Age-Herald Pub. Co. v. Huddleston
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; O. A. Steele, Judge. Action by George Huddleston against the Age-Herald Publishing Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The plaintiff was not entitled to maintain this action in the circuit court of Blount county. Sections 6110, 6112, Code 1907; 140 Ala. 258, 72 South.' 956; 219 TI. S. 1, 31 Sup. Ct. 212, 55 L. Ed. 65, 21 Ann.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; O. A. Steele, Judge. Action by George Huddleston against the Age-Herald Publishing Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. The plaintiff was not entitled to maintain this action in the circuit court of Blount county. Sections 6110, 6112, Code 1907; 140 Ala. 258, 72 South.' 956; 219 TI. S. 1, 31 Sup. Ct. 212, 55 L. Ed. 65, 21 Ann. Cas. 942; (D. C.) 173 Fed. 227; 209 Mo. 35, 107 S. W. 496; 249 Mo. 332, 155 S. W. 106S; 25 Cyc. 446, 447; 132 Ala. 576, 31 South. 469, 90 Am. St. Rep. 930. The publication of an issue of a newspaper is but one…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The complaint is in nine counts, each of which, in statutory form, declares upon a separate libel published by defendant of and concerning the plaintiff, “in a newspaper published at Birmingham.”
The action is brought in the circuit court of Blount county, and venue jurisdiction of the court is challenged by eight several pleas in abatement, each of which sots up facts from which it concludes that the venue of the action is improperly laid in Blount county, and to each of which a demurrer was duly sustained.
It is not necessary to state in detail -the allegations of all of these pleas, and the…
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