Larrabee v. Minnesota Tribune Co.

Action for libel. The complaint sets forth two articles published by defendant in its newspaper, the Minneapolis Daily Tribune, one on May 26,1883, and one on May 29, 1883, each of which the complaint claims to be libellous. The case is argued here, as it appears to have been tried below, on the first article. This is clearly libellous per se. No one could read it without understanding from it that the plaintiff had, from an improper motive, to wit, *142“purely out of political fear,” as stated in the article, -wilfully neglected the duties of his office (that of county attorney of Clay county)…