Kansas City Star Co. v. Carlisle
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This is an action of libel, which was brought by Harold Carlisle, the defendant in error, against the Kansas City Star Company, tne plaintiff in error.
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In Error to the Circuit. Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This is an action of libel, which was brought by Harold Carlisle, the defendant in error, against the Kansas City Star Company, tne plaintiff in error. The libel complained of was published in the Kansas City Star, a daily newspaper published by the defendant company, in its issue of February 20, 1897; the entire article being as follows (those portions of the article which were complained of as libelous are indicated by italics): “Arrested as a Thief. “Harold Carlisle, a Main Street Merchant, under a…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
The assignments óf error are very numerous, and embrace principally exceptions to the admission and exclusion of testimony. We • shall consider them mainly in the order that they were discussed by counsel, so far as it is deemed necessary to consider them.
At the beginning of the trial, after reading the libelous article complained of, of date February 20, 1807, and the two other articles of date February 21,1897, and March 7,1897, which are set out above in the defendant’s plea in mitigation, the plaintiff below offered in evidence a duly-certified copy of the record of a case entitled, “The…
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