Case Name: FLOOD v. EVENING POST PUBLISHING CO.
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1905-03-15
Citations: 71 S.C. 122
Docket Number: 
Parties: FLOOD v. EVENING POST PUBLISHING CO.
Judges: Messrs. Justices Gary, Jones and Woods concur in the result, as the complaint alleges that the publication zvas zvilful and malicious.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 122–123

Head Matter:
FLOOD v. EVENING POST PUBLISHING CO.
Ruled by preceding case of Flood v. News and Courier Co.
Before- DantzeER, J., Charleston,
May, 190-4.
Reversed.
Action by Augustus M. Flood against Evening Post Publishing Co. From Circuit order sustaining demurrer, plaintiff ap-peals.
Messrs. Young & Young, for appellants.
(Same citations as in case of Wood against News and Courier Co.)
Mr. Wm. Henry Parker, Jr., contra,
cites: It is not libellous per se io apply to a white mam, the term “colored” or negro:” 1 McC., 52; 18 Ency., 2 ed., 916, 917, note; 1 McM., 16; 28 Am. R., 580; 29 Fed. R., 828; 1 N. & McC., 349; 28 N. E. R., 692; 17 N. Y., 493; 4 So. R., 71; 28 So-. R., 91; 53 N. C., 184; 4 Cranch, 235; 1 Dow-1., 672; 1 McC., 203; Code 1902, 2158, 2821; Crim. Code, 293; 95 Am. Dec., 521.
March 15, 1905.

Opinion:
The op-inion o-f the Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice Pope.
This case presents the precise question disposed of in the case of Augustus Flood v. The News and Courier Company, where the order sustaining the demurrer was reversed. Having overruled the demurrer in that case, it only remains for us, upon the authority of that case, to reverse the order sustaining the demurrer in this case.
The judgment of this Court is, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, where it sustained the demurrer in this case, and the action is remanded to the Circuit Court for such other proceeding's as may be in accordance with law.
Messrs. Justices Gary, Jones and Woods concur in the result, as the complaint alleges that the publication zvas zvilful and malicious.