Houston Chronicle Pub. Co. v. Martin

JACKSON, Justice. .

The appellee instituted this suit in the district court of Bexar county against appellant to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by him on account of the publication by appellant of two articles in the Houston Chronicle disparaging the quality and purity of forty-three head of Brahma bulls imported by appellee from Brazil for sale on the market for breeding purposes.

The articles appeared in the first and final editions of the paper on September 27, 1024, gave a brief history of the hoof and mouth disease, its discovery in Harris county, the quarantine…