Case Name: ORVILLE D. JONES, Appellant, v. PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1914-03-24
Citations: 256 Mo. 57
Docket Number: 
Parties: ORVILLE D. JONES, Appellant, v. PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 256
Pages: 57–58

Head Matter:
ORVILLE D. JONES, Appellant, v. PULITZER PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Division Two,
March 24, 1914.
LIBEL: Jurisdiction: Venue. A trial court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine a libel suit brought in another county than that in which the plaintiff resided or the defendant, if a newspaper, first published the libel or had an office or agent. [Following Houston v. Pulitzer P'ublishing Co., 249 Mo. 332.]
Appeal from St. Charles Circuit Court. — Hon. James D. Barnett, Judge.
Dismissed.
J. G. Trimble and Joseph Wheeles for appellant.
Juclson, Green <& Henry for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
— Since the opinion of this division was rendered in this case, it has been held by the court in Banc in Houston v. Pulitzer Pub. Co., 249 Mo. 332, that a trial court does not have jurisdiction to hear and determine a libel suit brought, as was the case at bar, in another county than that in which the plaintiff resided or the defendant, if a newspaper, first published the libel or had an office or agent, thus overruling Julian v. Kansas City Star, 209 Mo. 35.
In conformity, therefore, with the ruling in the Houston case, supra, it follows that the trial court in the case at bar was without jurisdiction, and there fore, its judgment should be reversed and the suit dismissed.
It is so ordered.