Legal Opinion
Mattox v. News Syndicate Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 11, 1949No. 156, Docket 21204PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Chief Judge.
Both parties appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for a libel. The defendant’s appeal is based upon the admission of irrelevant and incompetent evidence as to damages; the plaintiff’s is from an order which granted a new trial unless she consented to reduce her damages from $20,000 to $15,000, which she did. The plaintiff lives in Norfolk, Virginia; the defendant is the publisher of a newpaper having a large circulation in New York, the Sunday issue of which, on the date in question — August 11, 1946 — had a circulation in Norfolk and…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance v. HillmonSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Shepard v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
- Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Insurance Co. v. MosleySupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Throckmorton v. HoltSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
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3Cited by63 opinions
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- Machleder v. DiazCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
- Carl O. Akermanis, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Sea-Land Service, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
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