McBride v. Crowell-Collier Pub. Co.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Alleging that he “was the sole owner of a certain business conducted under the trade name of Continental Press Service”, and that, in an article entitled “Florida’s Struggle with the Hoodlums”, published in the March issue of “Collier’s”, and attached to his complaint, false and libelous statements regarding the said Press Service had appeared, plaintiff sued for damages, actual and exemplary, in the sum of one million dollars.

In essence his claim was: that, referring to the said Continental Press Service as “the net”, the article had stated: “there is no doubt that the…