Leppla v. Minnesota Tribune Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Libel. Appeal by plaintiff from an order of the district court for Hennepin County, Lochren, J., presiding, refusing a new trial, after a verdict for plaintiff for one cent damages.
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
The libel was that “Mrs. John Leppla [plaintiff’s wife] says that she is living in mortal fear that her husband [the plaintiff] will carry out his threats, and take her life. The unhappy couple are not living together, and the woman [plaintiff’s wife] says that he [plaintiff] has made frequent and emphatic threats that he would kill her, if it cost him his life.” The defendant justified.
*311Upon the trial defendant offered no evidence to prove either that plaintiff had made any threats, or that his wife ever said that he had; but having produced as a witness plaintiff’s former wife, but who had…
2Cited by11 opinions
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