Gray v. Mossman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged libelous publication, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; at the direction of the court, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, which the court refused to set aside on motion of the plaintiff, and from the judgment thereafter rendered he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeleb, J.
This case was before us in 1914 (88 Conn. 247, 90 Atl. 938), on an appeal from a decision setting aside a verdict. We then held that assuming the words used were actionable per se, the evidence disclosed that they were true; and if false, that they were published in the exercise of a military privilege and belonged to the class known as privileged communications, for the publication of which the defendant could not be held hable unless the proof showed that he was actuated by malice. The conclusion of malice, we held, could not be reasonably reached upon the evidence.
On the present trial the…
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