Sinclair v. Dalien

Collard, Judge.—

The opinion rendered at the present term in the-case of Julius Runge v. Joseph Franklin et al. holds that a bill inequity-filed in a court of competent jurisdiction or other judicial proceeding in the civil courts is absolutely privileged from libel suit. But there is another question involved in this case. Here the original petition declared on defamatory allegations in a bill in chancery, and exceptions being sustained because the mode of publication was privileged, plaintiff amended, declaring upon the same written allegations set up in the original petition published the…