Waldo v. Morrison

MOISE, Justice.

This is an action for $10,000.00 damages; for an alleged libel published by James J. Morrison and Moise S. Steeg, Jr., attorneys, in a brief filed in certain proceedings. in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. From a judgment maintaining defendants’ exceptions of no right or cause of action, plaintiff appeals.

The brief was submitted in the course of litigation between plaintiff herein and the Succession of Mrs. Odette Francke, widow of John F. C. Waldo, No. 279,191, Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans, wherein plaintiff, a son and heir of the deceased,…