Bausewine v. Strassburger

Knight, P. J.,

These libel cases were tried together, and resulted in verdicts for plain*526tiff, aggregating $75,000: $50,000 as against the corporate defendant and $25,000 as against the individual defendant.

Plaintiff, George Bausewine, is, and for a number of years has been, the chief' of police of the Borough of Norristown. For many years he served in the police department of the City of Philadelphia, from which city he now receives a pension.

Defendant Norristown Herald, Inc., owns and prints a newspaper called Norristown-Times Herald, which, at the time the alleged libels were printed, had a…