Hines v. Shumaker
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Shumaker, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; and Hines and the Lamar Life Insurance Company, appellants, were ■ defendants there. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff ■ the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts of the case.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Shumaker, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; and Hines and the Lamar Life Insurance Company, appellants, were ■ defendants there. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff ■ the defendants appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts of the case. (For decision on motion to strike stenographer’s report of the ■testimony from the record, see Ilines v. Slvwmalcer, 95 Miss. 477, 50 South. 564.) A communication is in the privileged class: (1) When the ■ circumstances of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Wilbourn,* Special Judge,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
J. M. Shumaker brought suit in tbe circuit court of Hinds county, Miss., against W. W. Hines and tbe Lamar Life Insurance Company for tbe publication of tbe following letter:
*683“The Lamar Life Insurance Company.
“Jackson, Miss., June 17, 1908.
“To our Representatives — Gentlemen: There are but two-kinds of life insurance field men- — those that are good, and those that are no good. TheJmoeker is the most obnoxious type-of the latter class. The hardest work a man ever undertakes in this world is .to endeavor to lift himself up by trying to…
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