O'Connor v. Sill
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Superior Court of Detroit. (Ohipman, J.) Libel. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are-stated in the opinion. Defendant, under the testimony, was responsible for the publication and for its results, if libelous: Clifford v. Cochrane, 10 Ill. App.
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Error to Superior Court of Detroit. (Ohipman, J.) Libel. Plaintiff brings error. The facts are-stated in the opinion. Defendant, under the testimony, was responsible for the publication and for its results, if libelous: Clifford v. Cochrane, 10 Ill. App. Ct. 570; and words, not actionable in themselves, may become so if spoken of one engaged in a particular calling or profession : Id. 574. The language used tended to impair the credit to be given to the conversations held with the plaintiff, and charges her with incapacity as a teacher of the art of drawing, and tends to injure her in such…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, .0. J.
Plaintiff sued defendant for libel. The superior court of Detroit held the article sued on to be of such a nature that its publication was not actionable under the circumstances and occasion.
There is some question whether the remedy in this Court has not been cut off by delay in bringing the case into shape for review ; but as counsel have desired us to disregard this difficulty, and it is not so apparent on the record as necessarily to oust our jurisdiction, we shall dispose of the case on the issues.
The publication appears to have come about in this way. Plaintiff had been…
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