Ray v. Times Pub. Co.

The plaintiff in error, E. E. Ray, recovered judgment against the defendant in error, Times Publishing Company, for the sum of $4,000 actual damages resulting from an alleged libelous publication made by the defendant in error. On appeal, that judgment was reversed by the Court of Civil Appeals, and the cause remanded. 1 S.W.(2d) 471.

The salient facts are as follows:

On May 26,1926, a complaint was duly filed with Sam J. Day, justice of the peace at East-land, wherein it was alleged that the plaintiff in error, on May 15, 1926, “did voluntarily, deliberately, and willfully under oath, then and…