Wortham-Carter Pub. Co. v. Little Page

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee for actual and exemplary damages because of a publication in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, an evening paper published by the appellant company, of appellee’s name as one that had been indicted by the federal grand jury for a vio* lation of the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act (U. S. Comp. St. §§ 6287g-6287c[). Appellee alleged that the publication was false and that it had been made maliciously with the intent to injure him.

The defendant company, in addition to a general denial, specially pleaded that the name of Dr. H. B. Littlepage had been…