Bray v. Providence Journal Co.

This action of libel was heard before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s exceptions to the decision of the trial justice sustaining the defendant’s demurrer to the first count of his amended declaration, to' -the denial of his motion for a new trial, to the denial of his requests to charge, and to certain evidentiary rulings.

At the time of the alleged libel plaintiff, a teacher in the school system of the city of Pawtucket, was the head of the mathematics department of one of the city’s high…