Dyer v. Globe-Democrat Publishing Co.

ELMO B. HUNTER, Special Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, J. Raymond Dyer, a St. Louis City attorney, brought suit against the Globe-Democrat Publishing Co., (Globe) a corporation, defendant-respondent, for $100,000 actual damages and $100,-000 punitive damages allegedly resulting from a newspaper editorial of March 15, 1957, libeling plaintiff. The editorial read:

“Getting Your Name in Print”

“J. Wesley McAfee, president of Union Electric Company, was a long time lowering the boom on J. Raymond Dyer, St. Louis attorney, but Dyer finally got his comeuppance.

“Attorneys, by fiat of the American Bar…