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WANAMAKER v. LEWIS

Civ. A. No. 1-57.

173 F.Supp. 126 (1959)

Mrs. Pearl A. WANAMAKER, Plaintiff, v. Fulton LEWIS, Jr., WWDC, Inc., a corporation and Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

May 6, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. P. Tonkoff, Yakima, Wash., Warren Miller and Earl Davis, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for plaintiff.

Roger Robb, Kenneth W. Parkinson, and Edwin R. Schneider, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

HART, District Judge.

In this action for libel the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendants move for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was excessive and on the further ground that the cross-examination of one of defendants' witnesses by counsel for the plaintiff was prejudicial to the defendants. In their written motion for a new trial the defendants advanced eleven other grounds for the granting...

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