Young v. Richardson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Franklin Blades, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case for an alleged libel claimed to have been published by appellant in a certain communication directed to the board of supervisors of Kankakee Co., Ill., and filed with the clerk of the board.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Franklin Blades, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case for an alleged libel claimed to have been published by appellant in a certain communication directed to the board of supervisors of Kankakee Co., Ill., and filed with the clerk of the board. The avowed object of appellant in presenting the said communication to the board of supervisors was, that he and other citizens who signed it were tax payers of the county, and that appellee had presented an unjust claim to the board for allowance, and had presented it to the clerk…
1Opinion of the Court
Lacey, L.
The above cause presents some important questions which were raised on the trial in the court below, by the instructions given for appellee by the court, and also instructions refused for appellant. The instructions will be noticed hereafter in the opinion, so far as is necessary. In the first place, were the various matters set out in the 1st, 2d, and 3d counts of the declaration as the basis of the action libelous, saving the allegation in the 2d count of the false charge of appellee in the Webster case? Secondly, considering the alleged libelous matters set out in those counts…
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