Finnegan v. Detroit Free Press Co.

The only error that I can find in this case is the refusal of the court to give the third request of defendant, to wit:

“If you find that at, and for a length of time prior to, th.e publication of the article sued upon, the plaintiff was universally or generally known as 'John D. Finnegan,^ and not as merely ‘John Finnegan/ and that such initial letter, ‘D/ had been adopted by him expressly to distinguish him from persons known as 'John Finnegan/ then this article sued upon will not be presumed to have had reference to the plaintiff; and, as there is no evidence in the case that he. is the…