Seested v. Post Printing & Publishing Co.

Action for libel. The petition alleged that on November 2, 1921, the defendant was the owner and publisher of a newspaper, known as the Kansas City Post, then of a general circulation of over 150,000 copies in Kansas iCity, Jackson County, Missouri, and throughout the United States, and that on said date defendant published in said newspaper of and concerning the plaintiff the following defamatory article:

“The Post feels that it would be remiss in its duties if it did not again call attention, now that the great American Legion convention is closing, to the pro-German record of August…