Axton Fisher Tobacco Co. v. Evening Post Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll.

Reversing.

This is a libel suit brought by the Axton Fisher Tobacco Co., a corporation engaged, in Louisville, Ky., in manufacturing and selling smoking and chewing tobacco and especially in the manufacture and sale of the brands known as “Old Hill Side” and “Booster Twist.” The defendants are the Evening Post Co., the publishers of the Evening Post, a daily newspaper in the city of Louisville having a wide circulation in that city and elsewhere, and Richard W. Knott, editor, and Lewis C. Humphrey, associate editor of the paper.

To the petition and amended…