Knox v. Alter

SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.

This is an action by plaintiff against David Alter, owner and publisher of a weekly periodical known as “The Jewish Criterion,” and Milton K. Susman, its editor, to recover damages for alleged false and malicious publications in said periodical, charging the plaintiff with being openly engaged in Communist activities and un-American movements, and with writing articles which have been inflammatorily Fascistic.

The defendant Alter has filed twenty-six interrogatories directed to plaintiff under Rule 33 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. following section…