Yoke v. Cole

Appellants argue that inasmuch as the article in question in no wise specifically charges the plaintiff with having committed any crime in connection with the death of his wife, or that he was the beneficiary of any insurance policy on her life, that an innocent meaning should be given to the expressions used in preference to a construction which would result in charging a crime; also that all the contained expressions should be. construed in the plain and popular sense in which they would naturally be understood, and that, as so construed, no such meaning can be given to them as is ascribed…