· 2/7/1961
Haas v. Evening Democrat Company
Citations
- 107 N.W.2d 444
- 252 Iowa 517
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- statement that there was “no honorable reason” for advocating the position plaintiff advocated could be charge of dishonor or shamefulness, and was thus defamatory
- “An innuendo, in the law of slander and libel, is only a word of explanation, an attempt to give a meaning to what was actually expressed.”
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Judges: Thompson, Bliss
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