Turner v. Brien

1. Libel and slander: libels per se: ordinary effect of language: presumptions. This is an action for libel. Plaintiff is a laboring man. Defendant runs a grocery store. During the years 1914 and 1915, plaintiff became indebted to the defendant for groceries, and. appears not to have been able, or not to have been willing, to pay. Thereupon, defendant refused him further credit, and plaintiff went elsewhere far his groceries. Plaintiff claims that his failure to pay was due to the fact that the defendant had overcharged him, and was insisting on $20, when there was, in fact, but $16 due; that…