Louisville Times Co. v. Lyttle

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On April 20, 1932, the Courier-Journal, a newspaper owned, issued and published by the appellant and defendant below, the Louisville Times Company, a corporation, printed in its issue of that day an Associated Press dispatch emanating from the branch office of the latter in Frankfort, Ky. For years prior thereto one of the most noted Kentucky feuds, known as the “White-Bailey feud,” had its existence and chief seat of operation in Clay county. During its existence a number of the Whites, and as many or more of the Baileys, were assassinated. A…