Bailey v. Kalamazoo Publishing Co.

Campbell, G. J.

Bailey being a candidate for Congress on the prohibition ticket, the defendant company published several newspaper articles against him containing some direct charges against his moral character and integrity, and some comments of a very harsh character, all of which were published in connection with the slanderous allegations, and would be privileged by the occasion if those allegations were true. The contest, therefore, on the trial, was confined to an attempt at justification, and to proof in mitigation.

The charges, which need not be quoted at length, were as follows: First,…