Fullerton v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county against George Thompson and the Dispatch Printing Co. to recover $15,000 for libel.
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Action in the district court for Ramsey county against George Thompson and the Dispatch Printing Co. to recover $15,000 for libel. The answer alleged that the article published was a fair and true report of the official examination and report of the public examiner of the accounts of the Board of State Medical Examiners and of the records and documents therein referred to; that the article was not intended to charge and did not charge plaintiff, either alone or with anybody else, with larceny; nor was meant to charge and did not charge that plaintiff, either alone or with anyone else, had…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Plaintiff recovered a verdict of $700 for libel. Defendants moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial. The court denied the judgment asked, but granted a new trial unless plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict to $350. Plaintiff has not consented to the reduction, and defendants appeal.
The article complained of was published by defendants in the St. Paul Dispatch, a daily newspaper, on May 21, 1912. It was *138•written by a reporter in the employ of the defendant company, except the so-called headings. These latter were interspersed in large type, presumably to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Prewitt v. WilsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Pratt v. Pioneer Press Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1882
- Tawney v. Simonson, Whitcomb & Hurley Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
- Landon v. WatkinsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Stroebel v. WhitneySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
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- Donna W. Schuster and Donald E. Hanson v. U. S. News & World Report, Inc., a Corporation, and Time, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
- Price v. Viking Press, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1985
- Schuster v. U. S. News & World Report, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1978
- Hammersten v. ReilingSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1962
- Clancy v. Daily News CorporationSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1938
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