O'REILLY v. Curtis Pub. Co.

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This case is before the court on defendant’s amended answer in abatement.

It has appeared that the plaintiff, a citizen of Rhode Island, brought an action against the Curtis Publishing Company, a Delaware corporation, in which he charges the defendant with the publication in Massachusetts of libelous matter contained in a serial story running in the Saturday Evening Post. A few months later he brought the above entitled action charging the same defendant with the publication, in thirty-eight states other than Massachusetts, of the same matter in the same issue of the…