O'Connell v. Boston Herald Co.

PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.

These are suits against the various companies publishing the newspapers named, growing out of an attempt to report certain judicial proceedings. The part of the publication complained of by the plaintiff is, in one issue of one of the newspapers, the words, “and that he has fraudulently altered the will,” and, in the others, the words, “the petitioner had made alterations in it afterwards.” The question here is about the propriety of admitting in evidence in 'behalf of the defendants the opinion rendered in behalf of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts affirming…