Quentin Reynolds v. Westbrook Pegler, the Hearst Corporation and Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc.

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel action based upon a column of defendant Westbrook Pegler, published on November 29, 1949, by defendant Hearst' Consolidated Publications, Inc., owner of the New York Journal-American, a New York City newspaper, which had purchased the article from defendant Hearst Corporation, whose King Features Syndicate division had syndicated the article not only to the Journal-American but to a large number of other publications throughout the United States. As federal jurisdiction Is based upon diversity of citizenship, the substantive aspect of the case is governed…