Rawlins v. McKee

Plaintiff-appellant, Wiley H. Rawlins, sued defendant-appellee, John McKee, A. H. Belo Corporation, and the Times Herald Printing Company, for $1,000,000 in damages, which he claims to have sustained as a result of a political advertisement published by appellees at the height of appellant’s campaign for the Texas Legislature in the year 1958. He contends that the ad was libelous because, in effect, it referred to him (without using his name) as “radical” and “left-winger” who was “backed and financed by D.O.T. left-wingers and the big shot labor bosses.” The ad was alleged to have been…