Court Opinion

ID: 9444950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:16:40.959358+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:04.649032
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RIVES, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
The express averment that the corporation ' was itself deceived by its employees did not, in my opinion, preclude proof that the complaint was ‘ intended to and did damage the corporation. Brutus was not saved by the assertion that “Brutus is an honorable man.”
However, if actionable by the corporation, the alleged libel is actionable only per quod. There is no presumption that it caused injury to the corporation, and the motion to dismiss was properly sustained because no special damages were alleged.1 I would limit my concurrence to the failure of the complaint to allege special damages.

. Probably no special damages had been suffered prior to the institution of this suit just twenty-four days after tbe filing of tbe alleged libelous complaint.