Legal Opinion
Dodge v. Scripps
Washington Supreme Court
Decided November 15, 1934No. 25004. Department TwoPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTolman, J.
At the time of his death on March 11, 1932, Byron H. Canfield was the owner of substantial blocks of stock in ten corporations, known as the Scripps-Canfield League, which owned and operated as many newspapers. Five of these papers, Seattle Star, Tacoma Times, Spokane Press, Portland News and Los Angeles Record, had, for some years prior to 1921, been controlled and operated by James Gr. Scripps, and had been known as the James Gr. Scripps newspapers. James Gr. Scripps died in 1921, leaving to his widow, Josephine Scripps, his interest in the corporations owning these newspapers. He left four…
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