Legal Opinion
Leonard v. Shaw
California Supreme Court
Decided August 19, 1896No. S. F. No. 197PublishedCited by 15 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Benito County and from an order denying a new trial. J. H. Logan, Judge presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
This is an action to recover five thousand dollars from the defendants for an alleged libel published of and concerning plaintiff, on January 12, 1894, in the San Benito Advance, a newspaper ^printed and published by defendants, at Hollister, in the county of San Benito, state of California.
The following is a copy of the article:
“ GONE TO ERESH PASTURES.
“L. B. Leonard, the erstwhile manager of an Industrial Publishing Company that never had a legal existence, has gone where the woodbine twineth, and the Nash Brothers, who indulged in the luxury of running a newspaper to vary the…
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