Riceman v. Union Indemnity Co.

This is an action for libel brought to this court by appeal of the plaintiff from an order of the Superior Court sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the declaration on the ground (1) that the pleadings do not set out any sufficient legal cause of action and (2) that the written statement alleged to have been made by the defendant and set out in the declaration is not as matter of law sufficient to constitute a libel of the plaintiff by the defendant.

The declaration alleges that the defendant falsely and maliciously wrote and published at Boston of and concerning the plaintiff in a letter…