Negley v. Farrow
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. The appellee sued the appellants as editors, proprietors and publishers of a newspaper called “The Herald and Torchlight,” published in Hagerstown, in an action of libel. The declaration is substantially set forth in the opinion of the Court. The defendants filed a general demurrer to the declaration rvhich was overruled.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County. The appellee sued the appellants as editors, proprietors and publishers of a newspaper called “The Herald and Torchlight,” published in Hagerstown, in an action of libel. The declaration is substantially set forth in the opinion of the Court. The defendants filed a general demurrer to the declaration rvhich was overruled. They then filed the plea of “did not commit the wrong alleged,” and the two following special pleas : 2nd. That the defendants at the time of the publication of said alleged libellous articles in the several counts of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Robinsoít, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an action of libel against the defendants, now • appellants, editors and proprietors of a newspaper. Without setting out the alleged libel at length, it is sufficient *175to say, it charges the plaintiff, elected, as a republican senator from Washington County, with being under the influence and control of a corrupt democratic ring — with having participated in the republican caucus in nominating Mr. Pratt as Treasurer, and afterwards with having voted for Mr. Compton, the democratic ring candidate— with having aided the ring senators in…
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