Downing v. Brown
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to District Court of Arapahoe County. Action on the case for libel. The declaration, after stating the venue in the margin and the title of the court and term, was as follows : “Jacob Downing, the plaintiff in this suit, by E. L. Smith, L. B. France and Charles & Phelps, his attorneys, complains of Henry C. Brown, the defendant in this suit, who has been summoned, etc., of a plea of trespass on the case: For that whereas the said plaintiff, before and at the time of…
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Error to District Court of Arapahoe County. Action on the case for libel. The declaration, after stating the venue in the margin and the title of the court and term, was as follows : “Jacob Downing, the plaintiff in this suit, by E. L. Smith, L. B. France and Charles & Phelps, his attorneys, complains of Henry C. Brown, the defendant in this suit, who has been summoned, etc., of a plea of trespass on the case: For that whereas the said plaintiff, before and at the time of the committing by the said defendant of the several grievances hereinafter mentioned, was a person of good name, credit…
1Opinion of the CourtThatcher, C. J.
This was an action on the case for libel, brought by plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the court below.
The declaration contains seven counts. The first alleges that the defendant had charged the plaintiff with the commission of perjury; the second with the commission of perjury and murder ; the third with the commission of perjury; the fourth with the commission of murder; the fifth with the commission of murder; the sixth with the commission of felonious offenses; the seventh with “stuffing the ballot-box” at a certain general election in Arapahoe county. To the whole…
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