Blende v. Hearst Publications, Inc.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages from defendants for publishing an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a newspaper owned by defendant Hearst Publications, Inc., and of which newspaper defendant Oliver S. Morris was city editor at the time that article was published.

The material allegations of the amended complaint upon which the case was tried may be stated as follows: Sunday, July 19, 1936, the defendant corporation, in writing, maliciously published in each edition of its newspaper a libelous and scandalous story about and concerning the plaintiff, which story…