Morearty v. Strunk

This is an action to recover $100,000 in damages for libel. The alleged libelous publication appeared in a newspaper called “The McCook Gazette” and consisted of an article copied from the Grand Island Independent with a new headline and other additional matter. The original article discussed at length street paving as about 50 per cent, deficient in a Grand Island paving district and identified I. R. Morearty as the city engineer under whose supervision it was constructed, details of the defects being published as shown by a municipal investigation containing, in substance, findings to the…