Autrey v. Collins

The appellee sued the appellant to recover damages, both actual and exemplary, resulting from certain alleged libelous publications made by the appellant concerning the appellee, during the race of the latter for the state Senate in 1910. We here copy from appellant's brief the substance of the allegations of the petition:

"Plaintiff alleged that he was a practicing attorney residing at Beaumont; that on or about September 1, 1905, defendant employed him in a certain suit, involving the title to a tract of land in Hardin county, Tex., in which the defendant was interested; that in pursuance of…