ADAMS v. CLAPP


346 Mass. 245 (1963)

190 N.E.2d 886

HERBERT F. ADAMS vs. JOHN B. CLAPP & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Marsland, Jr., for the plaintiff.

James C. Heigham (Robert G. Clark, Jr., with him) for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.


KIRK, J.

The plaintiff appeals from orders sustaining the defendants' demurrers to his declaration in four counts in an action of tort for libel. The averments in each count are substantially the same.1 They differ in the names of the defendants and, in the counts against the individual defendants, in the allegation that publication of the alleged libel was made in two weekly newspapers in Hingham...

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