Lynch v. Lyons

These are two actions of tort which were tried to a jury and now come before us on the defendants* consolidated bill of exceptions.

The case of Lynch v. Lyons is an action for slander based upon statements made by the defendant in speeches delivered over the radio on October 30, 1935, and November 1, 1935, during the course of a political campaign in which the plaintiff and the defendant were candidates for the *117office of mayor of the city of Cambridge. The action against Mahoney is one for libel based upon the publication of a circular containing excerpts from Lyons’s speech of October 30,…