Salinger v. Cowles

The appellant’s petition alleges that appellee is president of a corporation that owns, controls, and publishes a newspaper known as the Des Moines Register, published at Des Moines, Iowa; that, on September 4, 1916, the appellant was a judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa; and that, on said *875date, there was published in said newspaper an article charging, in effect, that appellant had used his position as a judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa to coerce railroads having important litigation in that court into giving employment to one A. C. Savage. The petition alleges that, on October 23, 1916,…