Luotto v. Field

This is a libel action, the substance of plaintiff’s grievance being that in an article and an editorial published in defendant’s newspaper, on July 14,1942, plaintiff, as he claims', was accused of having been disloyal to the Government of the "United States and its war effort. In the complaint are set forth two alleged causes of action but each such cause of action is based on the same two July 14, 1942, publications. In each cause of action there are pleaded four separate items of alleged special damage, also general damages, those statements of damage, special and general, being the same…