Estelle v. Daily News Publishing Co.

The thing charged in the article published and on which the action for damages is based is, in substance, the cooperation' of the courts and gamblers in the temple of justice, that is, in the court house. The Erdman case is referred to, and it was claimed in the article published that that case was a “frame-up,” that is,- a prosecution for an alleged crime without any evidence or reason upon which to found it. The conclusion must be from these statements that Judge Estelle and the gamblers tried Erdman and secured his conviction and sent him to the penitentiary when they knew he was not…