Wabash Printing & Publishing Co. v. Crumrine

This is an action by the appellee against the appellants for publishing a malicious libel. The complaint charged the defendants, the Wabash Printing and Publishing Company, a corporation duly organized and engaged in printing and publishing a weekly newspaper in the city of Wabash, called the “Wabash Weekly Times,” and the defendants, John C. Eastman and John Whisler, Jr., as editors and managers thereof, with having published in the said “ Wabash Weekly Times,” an article charging the plain*91tiff with the crime of grand larceny, in that he stole ten bacon hams of one Thomas Bowsman.

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