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...Kehoe sued for libel. Judge charged jury that it might consider the Herald Tribune's retraction in fixing damages. Result: the 6? verdict. Said Appellate Justice Francis Martin last week: "Retractions are often dilatory, offensive, and ineffective. ... In a case where . . . the article was grossly libelous and the plaintiff a man of excellent reputation . . . there should be a verdict for substantial damages. ... A verdict for 6? in this case can be accounted for only by reason of the rule of damages enunciated by the trial court. . . . Judgment . . . reversed. . . . New trial." Wrong Picture. In Cuyahoga county, Ohio, last fortnight...
...Compensatory damages for actual loss of business, employment, etc., resulting from the defamatory publication. Punitive damages: additional recovery, on grounds of malice or gross negligence, to punish the offender and render mental and moral satisfaction to the victim.† The 6? verdict, awarded where the plaintiff's technical rights have been violated without considerable material damage, has precedent in old English law. A usual award in such cases was threepence, the smallest silver coin, U.S. money equivalent...
With Mr. Eaton as plaintiff, the case for Defendant Bethlehem remained to be heard...
Last week, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York decided that the New York American had been guilty of criminal libel in so printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
...Saturday's argument it was pointed out by the Legal Aid Bureau that plaintiff was suing the wrong party inasmuch as the claim lay against Murray Corman, the son, and not against his father. It was further pointed out that the son had throughout been willing to waive his defence of infancy, and to post a bond or other evidence of his financial responsibility, but that this had apparently not been considered by the court at the prior hearing. Counsel for the plaintiff insisted that Corman had had his day in court, but Judge Stone denied this contention...