North Dakota Supreme Court July 30, 1941, File 6747 (Stafney v. Standard Oil Co.)

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Burr, Ch. J.

The defendants appeal from an order granting a new trial.

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for alleged libel. He was an employee of the defendant company, and alleges that on or about April 24, 1039, the defendants published and circulated, “under the false and malicious pretense of making a legal report, the false, scandalous, malicious, defamatory and libelous matter,