Cochran v. Couzens

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in the Supreme Court of the District, in an aetion for slander, sustaining defendant’s (appellee here) motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.

The declaration discloses that on the 12th of April, 1928, plaintiff was a tax consultant engaged in the practice of his profession in the District of Columbia, and that defendant was a United States Senator from the state of Michigan in attendance upon the meetings of the first session of the Seventieth Congress of the United States; that in 1919 defendant sold a portion of the capital stock of the…