Hunter v. Afro-American Co.

HOFFMAN, District Judge.

The foregoing two actions allege that the defendant caused or permitted to be published and circulated in its “South Carolina Edition” of “The Afro-American” certain defamatory and libelous statements, the source of which is attributed to one John H. McCray described in said newspaper as “Editor, South Carolina Edition”. The actions were originally instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Darling-ton, and were removed to this Court by reason of diversity of citizenship and the amount in controversy.

Plaintiffs are initially confronted with a motion to…