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Show FORGOTTEN LAW !S INVOKED AT 'FRISCO BAS FRAKCISCO. Not. s! An almost forgotten for-gotten section of the penal code, known as the "ait-nature law," which prorides that all newspaper articles tending in any way to impeach im-peach the honesty or intefrity of any person ranst be published with the writer's signature signa-ture thereto, has been revived by 'the aiing of two suits for 81000 each against R. A. Crothers and Fremont Older, pnblisher and managing editor respectively of the Bulletin. The snits were filed by Bertram H. Meadly and are based upon editorials published in the Bulletin on October 5 and 9. |