Keefe v. Derounian

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for defamation allegedly resulting from the publication by the defendant of an article entitled “Daughters of Dissension and Defeat” in the November 1944 issue of “The Woman”. The complaint charges that the defendant, in the aforesaid article, caused readers to believe that, during the recent war, the plaintiff sent letters to parents of servicemen killed in the war charging that this nation’s leaders were responsible for their deaths and absolving enemy nations from blame. The plaintiff alleges that, in fact, these…