Damages    February 1, 1964

Porter v The Mercury Newspaper

A review of the plaintiff’s book The Watcher on the Cast Iron Balcony imputed that the plaintiff was guilty of literary dishonesty by inserting “Anglo Saxon words” in the work in order to promote publicity by attracting the attention of the censor, that the plaintiff had boasted that the book would be banned to promote publicity, and that the plaintiff was a worthless character as a man. … more