Houston Chronicle Pub. Co. v. Martin

This is a suit by appellee,

Martin, against the Houston Chronicle Publishing Company for damages alleged to have been sustained by the publication and circulation of two articles in the Houston Chronicle, a newspaper published by defendant. The articles complained of appeared in the regular mail edition of the paper on September 27, 1924; also in the final edition of that date. The articles are lengthy. They set out the discovery of the foot and mouth disease in Harris county; the establishment of a quarantine ; that the only infection so far noticed was in the herd of about 400 Brahma cattle…