Bradley v. Cramer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ The complaint alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff is the widow of D. C. Bradley, who committed suicide in Kenosha county, December 25, 1881; that on January 4, 1882, the defendants, as publishers and proprietors of the JEvening Wisconsin, maliciously published concerning the plaintiff in said newspaper the false and defamatory matter following, to wit: “ Probable Cause…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Cassoday: “ The complaint alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff is the widow of D. C. Bradley, who committed suicide in Kenosha county, December 25, 1881; that on January 4, 1882, the defendants, as publishers and proprietors of the JEvening Wisconsin, maliciously published concerning the plaintiff in said newspaper the false and defamatory matter following, to wit: “ Probable Cause of D. J. Bradley's Suicide (meaning the said D. C.'Bradley). D. J. Bradley (meaning and referring to said D. C. Bradley),…
1Opinion of the CourtOassoday, J.
It is settled that an action for libel may be sustained for words published which tend to bring the plaintiff into public hatred, contempt, or ridicule, even though the same words spoken would not have been actionable. Lansing v. Carpenter, 9 Wis., 542; Cary v. Allen, 39 Wis., 482; Cottrill v. Cramer, 43 Wis., 245. Written slan*312der is necessarily attended with such deliberation, and its publication is so well calculated to produce permanent mischief, that an action may be maintained for the publication of written words when it could not be maintained for the publication of the same words by…
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