Barr v. Moore
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 177. Case for libel brought by William D. Moore against James P. Barr and others. The declaration set out that defendants were the editors and proprietors of “ The Post,” a daily morning newspaper, published in the city of Pittsburgh, which paper, on Monday the 16th of February 1874, contained as an editorial a libellous article concerning the plaintiff.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term 1877, No. 177. Case for libel brought by William D. Moore against James P. Barr and others. The declaration set out that defendants were the editors and proprietors of “ The Post,” a daily morning newspaper, published in the city of Pittsburgh, which paper, on Monday the 16th of February 1874, contained as an editorial a libellous article concerning the plaintiff. This editorial, in substance, will be found in the opinion of this court. Defendants filed a special plea, “That they, the defendants, at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This was an action to recover damages for the publication, by the plaintiffs in error, of an alleged libellous article. It appeared in a daily newspaper, of which they were the editors and proprietors. The plea admits the publication, and without averring any fact therein charged to be true, substantially claims that inasmuch as the defendant in error was chairman of the county committee of the Democratic party, his acts in such capacity were a proper subject for investigation and information, and as their article was in answer to a certain publication made by him, the alleged libellous…
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