Bronson v. Bruce

At the general election in the year 1882, the plaintiff was a candidate for congress.

The defendant was then editor and publisher of the Big Rapids Current, a newspaper published in the city of Big Kapids, in the county of Mecosta, and circulated in that and other counties in the congressional district which was sought to be represented in congress by the plaintiff, as well as in other counties of the State outside of said district.

The defendant, through the columns of his newspaper, opposed the election of the plaintiff to the office for which he was a candidate, and supported the election of…