Plummer v. Commercial Tribune Publishing Company

Opinion of the Court by.Judge Sampson

Affirm--

ing.

By this action in the Kenton circuit court appellant, Plummer, sought to recover damages of the appellee, publishing company, for libel resulting from a publication in the Commercial Tribune, a daily newspaper owned and published by it in Cincinnati, and circulated in Kenton and other counties in Kentucky, of the following news item:

“Sues Lawyer — Wins.

“A suit in which an attorney was the defendant attracted a crowd of spectators yesterday to Judge John B. Read’s court room. The case was- that of Mrs. Rose Globe, Ninth and Scott streets,…