Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a sneaking notion, That the plaintiff missed first base...
...plaintiff...
...jury: (To the plaintiff...
...definitely identifies the libelled person. Otherwise, judgment must be based upon the entire article. Said the court: "Even assuming that [the headline] is susceptible of the meaning that some pastor at Park Falls had been named in a larceny warrant, there is nothing in these headlines to identify the plaintiff as being such pastor. It is well settled that defamatory words must refer to some ascertained or ascertainable person and that that person must be the . . . plaintiff...
...Plaintiff Frome, 54, worked for the soup company from 1898 until 1928 when, according to his story, the defendants forced him out of his $40,000-a-year position as superintendent, told his wife he was mentally unsound as the result of drinking, had him detained for observation. A year ago he was released from Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane as normal...