Appell v. Dickinson

THOMAS, Justice.

The appellant was the unsuccessful plaintiff in the circuit court. He filed a complaint against the appellee charging, in the first count, that the appellee, “maliciously intending to * * * bring him into public scandal and disgrace,” wrote a letter to Arthur W. Brooks that contained the following sentence: “ ‘This will repeat in writing the information which I delivered to you in person; i. e. that your salesman APPELL informed me that he had used fraud in the securing,of certain contracts and that this fraud was committed with your knowledge and consent.’ ” The appellant…