Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1952-06-20
Similar Action
Brought Against
Columbus Mayor

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Alleging the publication of false
defamatory matter, the Doyle
Press, Inc, Clarence j. Doyle.
president. West jefferson, has in
stituted an action against The
Madison Press Company of Lon
don,- in the Madison county Com
mon Pleas Court seeking Judgment
of $200,Ouu.
The suit is an aftermath of re-
cent statements by Columbus
Mayor James A. Rhodes, Republi-
can candidate for State Auditor.
in Republican rally at Cleveland.
A similar action has been brought
against Mayor Rhodes by the
Doyle Press, Inc, in the Franklin
County Common Pleas court, ac-
cording to the Associated Press.
Filing of the Madison County
suit was announced in the Plain
City Tri-County News, a weekly
publication of the Doyle Press.
Inc, Thursday. The action was
filed in the Madison county court
at 3:59 pm. on Thursday, June 19.
The plaintiff alleged in its PEI
tition that by reason of such de-
famatory and libelous matter that
the business and credit of Doyle
Press, Inc, has been, and is, great
ly impaired and injured, and the
good name of the corporation
brought into public notice and dis
grace, and that such corporation
has sustained great loss and DAM
age by reason of said acts of said
defendant in the sum of 5000, 900
for which the plaintiff asks judg-
ment.
The Doyle Press petition recites
that,-the plaintiff alleges that the
defendant caused such defamatory
matter to be written and published
IN respect to the purported activi-
ties of this plaintiff and its Presi-
dent, Clarence ]. Doyle, with the
malicious intent to injure the busi-
ness, credit, good name, reputa-
ton, and financial stability of
Doyle Press, Inc"
The petition also states that the
Plaintiff Doyle Press. Inc. saws
that it is a corporation, licensed to
do business Under the laws of the
State of Ohio. with its principal
place of business at West Jeffer-
son, Ohio; that it has an extensive
commercial printing business, and
publishes and circulates in Mad
ison, Franklin and Union counties
three weekly newspapers. and has
a substantial financial investment
in its equipment, land and build
ings, business, and other assets. in
cluding good will. in the printing
and publishing business.
The defendant is described in
the petition aS,-''the owner of q
certain newspaper known as The
Madison Press published at Lon
don, Ohio, and at all times herein-
after mentioned was corporation,
and that such newspaper has cir
culation in Madison County and
adjacent territory
The plaintiff alleged the matter
described as defamatory was Is
sued, published and widely dis
tributed in the Madison Press on
or about June 16, 1852.
Announced BY Herald
The West Jefferson Herald, new
weekly of the Doyle Press, Inc. in
its Thursday. June 19 edition pub
lished a report on Doyle's suit
against Mayor James A. Rhodes of
Columbus in a page one spread
headed, WEST JEFFERSON
PRINTING FIRM SUES COLUM-
BUS MAYOR FOR LIBEL, SLAM
DER" SEPARATE ACTION
NAMES PUBLISHER OF MAD
ISON PRESS.
Accompanied by a one-column
picture, purporting to be Clarence
j. Doyle in a business-like pose
with telephone to the ear, the re-
port read thus:
Charging Mayor James A.
Rhodes, of Columbus, with libel
and malicious slander,' Clarence J.
Doyle, President of Doyle Press,
Incorporated, Thursday filed a
libel suit against Rhodes in the
Franklin County Common Pleas
Court for $500, 900 damages" IS
The report continued, The
Doyle Press publishes the 81 year
old Tri-County News of Plain
City, the billiards News and the
West Jefferson Herald.
AT the same time, Doyle filed
a similar suit in the Madison
County Courts against ]. r. Con-
way. publisher of The Madison
Press" t-109 years old-also
The Madison County Democrat 95-
years old of London and the Plain
City Advocate, a free newspaper
circulated in parts of the Plain
City area, for causing to be pub
a Continued on page two III
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