Candrian v. Miller
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. JB. Wyman, Circuit Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from, a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. JB. Wyman, Circuit Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion. They contended, inter alia, that the article published by the plaintiff and pleaded in justification was published on May 14, and defendant’s attention was called to it on the same day, while the libel sued on was published on May 28. The defendant testified that he wrote the alleged libel soon after May 14, but that it was not to be published until the 28th and that he might have stopped its publication at any time before that time. He had already answered the…
1Opinion of the CourtOassodat, C. J.
This actiomwas commenced June 3,1896, to recover damages sustained by reason of a libel published *166by tbe defendant of and concerning the plaintiff, May 28, 1896.
The libel was in the form of an open letter, and, among other things, with appropriate innuendoes and in effect, referred to the plaintiff as being eloquent in calumnies, outrageously malicious allusions, lying and quarreling with acquaintances and neighbors,but equally as “cod-fish mute” when called upon for an answer, explanation, or the truth, quarreling in guttersnipe fashion, and as incapable of thinking at all; that he appeal’s…
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