Sweeney v. Newspaper Printing Corp.

¥b. Chief Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit for libel. The trial judge sustained a demurrer to the declaration, and the plaintiff has appealed.

It appears from the declaration that the plaintiff is a lawyer and a Democratic Congressman from the State of Ohio. The defendant is the publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. That paper carries a syndicated column, and in this column there was printed the matter complained of which the plaintiff contends was libelous per se. The declaration contains no innuendo and avers no special damages.

The libel is said to inhere in…