Atlanta News Publishing Co. v. Medlock
Supreme Court of Georgia
Actions of libel. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta., November 18, 1904. Three Medlocks, aged respectively 13,14, and 15 years, brought, their separate suits for libel against the Atlanta News Publishing Company, a corporation.
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Actions of libel. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta., November 18, 1904. Three Medlocks, aged respectively 13,14, and 15 years, brought, their separate suits for libel against the Atlanta News Publishing Company, a corporation. The petitions in the three cases, were substantially the same, and were in substance as follows: The defendant publishes a newspaper known as the Atlanta News,, which claims a circulation of nearly 25,000. On August 23, 1902, Mrs. Moxley, an aunt of the plaintiffs, brought suit against the Georgia Railway and Electric Company, seeking to recover damages for two…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
Viewed in any light, the writing was libelous. It. was none the less a libel upon the plaintiffs because it was a libel upon the railway company. Tk<? defendant in effect charged that the railway company had corrhptly influenced the plaintiffs ta *718give false testimony, and that they had yielded to this influence. To the mind of any reader, of even less than average intelligence, the writing contained a charge that the plaintiffs had been guilty of perjury, and perjury of the most vicious character, that is, perjury brought about by the acceptance of money. The writing must be taken in that…
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