Friedman v. Pulitzer Publishing Co.

(after stating the facts as above).— 1. In support of the lower court’s action upon the mo*693tion for new trial, respondent urges that the court erred in excluding testimony of defendant’s reporter, who obtained and prepared for publication the article complained of as libelous to the effect that he had no personal acquaintance with plaintiff and bore no malice or ill will toward him; but the record, as exhibited, discloses that questions seeking to elicit this character of testimony were addressed to and fully answered by this witness, whose testimony was offered in form of deposition, and that…