Sweeney v. Baker
West Virginia Supreme Court
Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of tbe circuit court of Ohio county, rendered on the 18th day of July, 1876, in an action of trespass on the case for libel, then in said court pending, wherein James W. Sweeney was plaintiff, and Lewis Baker, William J. Johnston, William H. Taney and James B. Taney were defendants. Hon. Thayei Melvin, Judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of.
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Writ of error and supersedeas to a judgment of tbe circuit court of Ohio county, rendered on the 18th day of July, 1876, in an action of trespass on the case for libel, then in said court pending, wherein James W. Sweeney was plaintiff, and Lewis Baker, William J. Johnston, William H. Taney and James B. Taney were defendants. Hon. Thayei Melvin, Judge of the first judicial circuit, rendered the judgment complained of. Green, PRESIDENT, furnishes the following statement of the case: James W. Sweeney at September rules, 1874, filed in the circuit court of Ohio county, his declaration in an…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, PRESIDENT,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
jjefore considering directly the questions, involved in this case, I will briefly consider the rights and duties of the parties to this action, arising from their relations to each other.
Syllabus 7 The plaintiff was a candidate to represent the county of Ohio in the House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia; and the defendants were proprietors of the Wheeling Daily Register, a newspaper published in said county. A newspaper proprietor is just as liable, for what he publishes in his newspaper, as any other person; and he is liable in…
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