Waller v. Graves
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was a petition for a new trial of a cause, which had previously come before this court. Graves v. Waller, 19 Conn. R. 90. For the nature of the action and the declaration, it is sufficient, for the present purpose, to refer to the report of that case.
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This was a petition for a new trial of a cause, which had previously come before this court. Graves v. Waller, 19 Conn. R. 90. For the nature of the action and the declaration, it is sufficient, for the present purpose, to refer to the report of that case. On the trial of the cause to the jury, it became a material question, and one on which the determination of the cause depended, whether the words “ rapacious creditor,” were in the original manuscript, when it was handed to the editor of the New-Milford Republican, the news-paper in which it was alleged to have been published, or were…
1Opinion of the Court
Church, Ch. J.
The most aggravated portion of the libel complained of, is that by which the plaintiff, Graves, was exposed to public reproach and contempt, as having, in the character and spirit of a rapacious creditor, shamefully abused Sylvanus Merwin, his son-in-law, and his wife and children.
This charge was libellous, and, in a good degree, gave sting and character to the whole publication, and was the chief ground of the plaintiff’s claim to the recovery of damages at the trial, and upon which the issue of the cause was supposed much to depend, as we infer from the allegations in this…
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