McGregor v. State Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Townsend, J., Richland, Summer term, 1919. Action by E. C. McGregor, doing business as McGregor’s Drug Store, against the State Company and the Irogen Chemical Company. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals.
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Before Townsend, J., Richland, Summer term, 1919. Action by E. C. McGregor, doing business as McGregor’s Drug Store, against the State Company and the Irogen Chemical Company. From an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, plaintiff appeals. The exception referred to is as follows: The plaintiff herein excepts to the order of his Honor, W. H. Townsend, presiding Judge, dated May 21, 1919, upon the ground: (1) That his Honor erred in holding and adjudging, “I do not think the publication was either libelous or calculated to injure the plaintiff,” because: (a) The pulication was libelous…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
Action for libel. Demurrer by the State Company. Order sustaining the demurrer. Appeal by the plaintiff.
The circumstances of the case, apparent from the allegations of the complaint, are these: One of the defendants, the Irogen Chemical Company, was the manufacturer of a patent medicine called Irogen, said to contain “essential elements to red blood corpuscles;” that on March 20, 1918, and on March 24, 1918, there appeared in the State newspaper an unsigned display print and voluminous advertisement of this medicine, the objectionable…
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