Floyd v. Sun-Democrat

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Claiming she had been damaged by an alleged libel published in the Sun-Democrat, Mrs. May Floyd sued and sought to recover of it, its editor, and its owner, $25,000; a demurrer was sustained to her petition, and she has appealed,

In a fight that occurred on August 11, 1934, in Paducah, Ky., Edgar Floyd (aged 27) received such serious cuts and injuries that he died shortly thereafter.

In its issue of August 12, 1934, there was printed in the Sun-Democrat a lengthy account of this fight, and of Floyd’s injuries and resulting death, in which…