Tresca v. Maddox

Spoíeord, J.

(Merrick, C. J., absent.) The defendant has appealed from a judgment for $1000; rendered against him* upon the verdict of a jury as damages for the publication of a libel against the .plaintiff in the Crescent newspaper.

The plaintiff, caiptain of a schooner in the Tampa Bay trade, was arrested in New Orleans in July,-1862', and imprisoned upon an affidavit made by a policeman before one of the Recorders, to the effect that he had been informed, and verily believed that the plaintiff, and others on board his schooner, the George Lincoln, were guilty of robbing the dead bodies of…