Davis v. Missourian Publishing Assn.

This an action for libel. At the close of defendant's evidence, the jury, at the direction of the trial court, returned a verdict for defendant, and, after an unsuccessful motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed from the judgment entered on the verdict.

The evidence adduced on behalf of plaintiff warrants the finding that plaintiff, a contractor, was, at all times mentioned herein, a member of the council of the city of Columbia, a municipal corporation, and that defendant was the publisher of a newspaper in said city. In 1924 the city, without letting a contract, arranged to build an…