Childers v. San Jose Mercury Printing & Publishing Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Monterey County and from an order denying a new trial.,, The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtGaeoutte, J.
— This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court of the county of Monterey, in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant herein, for the sum of two thousand dollars damages for an alleged *287libel, and from an order denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
The defendant published in a daily issue of the San Jose Mercury, a newspaper printed and published in the city of San Jose, an article to the effect that the plaintiff, William. Childers, had committed the offense of burglary, upon the previous night, in said city of San Jose, by breaking and entering a business house of…
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