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· 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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