Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n v. Schenck

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error by tbe defendant in tbe court below to review a judgment entered upon tbe verdict of a jury for tbe plaintiff in an action of libel. Tbe defendant was tbe proprietor of tbe Evening Sun newspaper, and in tbe issue of January 29,1895, published of and concerning tbe plaintiff tbe following paragraph;

“The regular grand jury to-day handed up two additional indictments for forgery against Ool. H. O. Beecher and Vincent R. Schenck, of the defunct American Casualty Insurance & Security Company.”

Tbe defendant, in its answer, admitted the publication of…