Metcalfe v. Williams

Opiniou op the Court.

THIS was an action for a libel. Three counts are laid -in the declaration. The first charges the defendant, in the usual form, with having “ composed and published, of and concerning the plaintiff, a libel, conlaui-*388ing, among other things, the following false, dcfamaioty anc^ libellous matter,” and then sets it forth. The other two counts allege the libel in the same manner, and charge the defendant with publishing it, but not with composing it. Not guilty, was pleaded; and on the trial the plaintiff produced a paper containing the matter which is alleged in the…