Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court May 12, 1909 (Shallenberger v. Scripps Publishing Co.)

Phillips, J.

Each of these actions is for libel. The petitions are identical in their averments, and the cases were argued and submitted together, upon a general demurrer to each petition,

*634The plaintiffs are, and for about twenty years have been, lawyers practicing at this bar. The defendant, an Ohio corporation^ publishes a newspaper known as.