Legal Opinion
Lesesne v. Willingham
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Decided April 25, 1949No. Civ. A. 2047PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WYCHE, District Judge.
The plaintiff sues the defendant Western Union Telegraph Company and H. G. Will-ingham for libel based upon the telegraph company’s acceptance, transmission and delivery of two telegrams over its usu-al and customary channels of local transmission in the City of Columbia, South Carolina.
The telegram upon which plaintiff’s first cause of action is grounded is as follows:
“LDA6 NL PD Columbia SoCar 26 1946
Oct 26 PM 10 45
Thomas P. Lesesne
2207 Murray St Columbia So Car Although you are an administrative assistant of the South Carolina State Board of Health and a New Deal tick…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- O'Brien v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1940
- Duncan v. the Record Publishing Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1927
- Vermillion v. Woman's College of Due WestSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1916
- Bell v. Bank of AbbevilleSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1946
- Turner v. Montgomery Ward & Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1932
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Holtzscheiter v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1998
- Garcia v. Hilton Hotels International, Inc.District Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1951
- Holmes v. Curtis Publishing CompanyDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1969
- Mains v. K Mart Corp.Court of Appeals of South Carolina · 1988
- Pierce v. Northwestern Mutual Life InsuranceDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1978
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