Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — LIBELED IN NOVEL; WINS SUIT [ARTICLE]

LIBELED IN NOVEL; WINS SUIT

New York Police Magistrate Gets Verdict for $35,000 Damages Against Publishers. New York, Dec. 15.—A verdict of $35,000 was given by a jury here in favor of Police Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan in his suit against the BobbsMerrill company of Indianapolis, Ind., publishers of George Bronson Howard’s novel, “God’s Man,” in which he alleged he was libeled. He sued for $200,000 damages. Corrigan charged that one of the chief characters in the novel was intended to represent him and that the book contained matter defamatory to him.