Memphis Press-Scimitar Co. v. Chapman

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment below awarding punitive and compensatory damages to the appellee resulting from a libel published in the appellant’s newspaper. The appellee was the Deputy Prohibition Administrator for the Northern district of Mississippi, and a citizen of that state, and the appellant is a Tennessee corporation, having its principal place of business at Memphis. The questions presented relate to the right of the plaintiff below to recover punitive or exemplary damages, and the sufficiency of the charge of the court on the subject of compensatory damages.

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