[DOWNLOAD] "Kinsey V. Real Detective Publishing Co." by Arizona Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Kinsey V. Real Detective Publishing Co.
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 05, 1938
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
Description
There are but two points for our consideration. The first is whether or not the court erred in sustaining the motion to make the first complaint more definite and certain, and the second whether the amended complaint stated a cause of action in libel as against the defendants. The action was based upon an article published in a magazine called "Real Detective" which discussed a criminal case well known in Phoenix and the vicinity. The article is too long to be set forth in full in this opinion, but its substance was that there existed in Arizona an abortion ring, which covered practically the entire state, and which was particularly active in the city of Phoenix. It then set up in lurid details the alleged facts in regard to a criminal abortion performed by a woman named Billie Kinsey, the former wife of the plaintiff, and that she was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree for the abortion. The article brought plaintiff into the case with the following language: