Parke-Hayden, Inc. v. Loews Theatre Management Corp.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that plaintiff was not entitled to rely on a defendant’s jury-demand where the defendant had neither a constitutional nor a statutory right to make such a demand
• seaman employed by ship, but injured by independent contractor while working aboard ship; factors to consider in determining whether independent contractor could be the agent of the shipowner-employer of the injured employee-seaman
• “It is only when a court can say that the publication is not reasonably capable of any defamatory meaning and cannot be reasonably understood in any defamatory sense that it can rule, as a matter of law, that it was not -libelous”
• statements in a party’s pleadings are conclusively binding on that party