Richards v. Bieber

Plaintiff has moved to set aside a verdict of six cents rendered in his favor by a jury in a libel action, asserting that tMs award of only nominal damages is grossly inadequate.

The background of the case is the race course with which both the plaintiff and the defendant were associated, the defendant in the capacity of a manager of a racing stable, and the plaintiff, at the time that the libel was published, as a veterinarian to the Jockey Club, intrusted by it with the duty of exa,mining the horses.

The defendant, in a letter addressed to the chairman of the Jockey Club, complained of…