Curtis Pub. Co. v. Fraser

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought by plaintiff, a resident of St. Augustine, Florida, and operator of certain exhibits there, for which an admission fee is charged, against defendant, Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, and Curtis Circulation Company, the distributor, the suit was for libel,

The claim in general 1 was that in an article, the sixty-third in a series on the Cities of America, which appeared in the March 5, 1949 issue, under the title “The Cities of America — St. Augustine”, with the sub-title, “Despite the efforts of promoters, our nation’s oldest…