Lewis v. . Carr
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit by Webb, J., at April Term, 1919, of Aveet. This was an action for libel, brought by tbe plaintiff, chairman of the board of education of Avery County, against the defendant Carr, owner and publisher of the “Mountaineer and Avery Herald,” a newspaper published in Avery County, and the defendants, Guy and Baird, who were the cashier and assistant cashier of the Avery County Bank.
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Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of nonsuit by Webb, J., at April Term, 1919, of Aveet. This was an action for libel, brought by tbe plaintiff, chairman of the board of education of Avery County, against the defendant Carr, owner and publisher of the “Mountaineer and Avery Herald,” a newspaper published in Avery County, and the defendants, Guy and Baird, who were the cashier and assistant cashier of the Avery County Bank. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence the court granted a motion for nonsuit, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Claes:, C. J.
The defendant Carr, owner and publisher of “The Mountaineer and Avery Herald,” at Newland, N. C., published an article therein which charged that the county superintendent of education had no right to pay out of the county school funds the expenses of the chairman of the county board of education to the teachers’ assembly at Charlotte. The plaintiff, who was chairman of the county board of education, called upon the defendant Carr to publish his proofs, and he thereupon printed an affidavit by the defendants Guy and Baird, cashier and assistant cashier of the Avery County Bank,…
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