Nichols v. Daily Reporter Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake County; S. W. Stewart, Judge. Action by O. A. Nicbols against tbe Daily Eeporter Company. From a judgment for plaintiff for nominal damages, be appeals. APPELLANT'S POINTS. “There is a broad distinction between actions for spoken and actions for written and published words.
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Appeal from District Court, Salt Lake County; S. W. Stewart, Judge. Action by O. A. Nicbols against tbe Daily Eeporter Company. From a judgment for plaintiff for nominal damages, be appeals. APPELLANT'S POINTS. “There is a broad distinction between actions for spoken and actions for written and published words. The latter are actionable per se when they impute to another acts, the tendency of which is to disgrace him or to deprive him of the confidence or good will of society, or to hold him up to scorn, ridicule or contempt, or to lessen the esteem of society for him. It is not necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtSteaup, J.
•1. The appellant, plaintiff below, brought this action against the respondent to recover damages for libel. It is alleged in *76tbe complaint that while the plaintiff was a candidate for election to an. office in the Typographical Union at Salt Lake City, and also a candidate for delegate to the annual convention of the National Typographical Union to be held at Washington, D. C., the defendant printed and published a card, on one side of which were the words, “Vote for Honest Jake Bosch for Delegate,” and on the other: “Explanatory. Mr. C. A. Nichols owes the Daily Reporter Co. a balance of…
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