Show I LAW KNOCKED OUT One Providing that Newspaper Articles r Arti-cles Must be Signed Set Aside TRIBUNE SPECIAL San Francisco March 2C Judge Hlint today virtually knocked out Senator Sen-ator Morehouses law which provides that all articles of a personal character published in the newspapers of California Califor-nia shall be signed by the writers thereof A test case was arranged and suit was brought by Charles A Bennett to recover S1000 from the Call for publishing pub-lishing an article reflecting more or less seriously upon Bennett A demurrer was Interposed to Ben netts complaint setting forth that the I law was unconstitutional In that it has a penal provision and that any prosecution I prose-cution thereunder must bo Instituted by the people of the State Judge Hunt today sustained the demurrer I I de-murrer In a short opinion In which he held that the contention of the defense was sound Under this ruling it Is qn likely that the law will ever be heard from again It being held that only the peoplo as a whole may sue to right the wrongs of Individuals It Is safe to act will be assume that the signature I I henceforth a dead letter upon the statute S stat-ute books |