Legal Opinion
Murphree v. Mississippi Pub. Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 7, 1945No. 11254PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEE, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, alleging himself to be a resident citizen of Calhoun County in the Northern District of Mississippi, brought this suit in the United States District Court for said district against the appellee, a Delaware corporation duly qualified to engage in business in Mississippi, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from a libel published editorially in a newspaper of the appellee in the city of Jackson in the Southern District of Mississippi. Process was served in the Southern District upon appellee’s resident agent for process by the marshal for that district.…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Seaboard Rice Milling Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- McCormick Harvesting MacHine Co. v. WalthersSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Munter v. Weil Corset Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Massachusetts Bonding & Ins. Co. v. Concrete Steel Bridge Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1930
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Mississippi Publishing Corp. v. MurphreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Honda Associates, Inc. v. Nozawa Trading, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1974
- McCoy v. SilerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1953
- Kipperman v. McConeDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1976
- Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. FeltCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1945
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