Duncan v. Pearson

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

Daniel T. Duncan brought a civil action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina against Drew Pearson, individually and as one of the co-partners writing and publishing under the trade name of “The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round”, for an alleged libelous article published of and concerning Duncan on November 25, 1938. The article published by Pearson, for which Duncan seeks damages in the sum of $200,-000, was as follows:

“Buzzard’s Roost—

“One reason a lot of voters last election turned sour on the New Deal, despite tremendous…