Kulesza v. Alliance Printers Publishers

Full title: Louis Kulesza and Frank Heynar, Appellants, v. Alliance Printers and…

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, Chicago, First District

Date published: Mar 22, 1943

318 Ill. App. 231 (Ill. App. Ct. 1943)

47 N.E.2d 547

Opinion

Gen. No. 42,336. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed March 22, 1943

DAMAGES, § 320^_ — when allowance of only nominal damages for libels is not abuse of trial court's discretion. In action to recover damages for libels alleged to have been published concerning plaintiffs in defendants' newspapers, held trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing only nominal damages where there was no proof of actual monetary damages.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; Hon. DANIEL P. TRUDE, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in first division, first district, this court at October term, 1942.

Harold O. Mulks, for appellants;

Casimir E. Midowicz and Ewart Harris, for certain appellees;

Mitchell Kilanowski, for certain other appellees.

Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE MATCHETT.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed March 22, 1943.