Rabb v. Trevelyan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by William Rabb against Francis Trevelyan and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff brings this suit against six individuals (four of them said to be operating the City Park race track and the other two acting as “so-called” judges of the race) and four corporations (said to be engaged in the publication of newspapers), alleging that the individuals falsely accused him of swindling and of conspiring with one Wishart to cheat and swindle in the running of races at said track without affording him an opportunity to defend himself, and that they published their accusations in the newspapers of the other defendants, and caused them to be…
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