Pfitzinger v. Dubs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Action on the case by Michael Pfitzinger against Rudolph Dubs, August Haefele, and the Volksblatt Printing Company. • Defendants obtained judgment on demurrer to the declaration. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BUNN, District Judge.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff in error, a minister of the gospel, and a citizen of Buffalo, N. Y., against the defendants, citizens of Chicago, Ill., for printed libel. The defendants are, respectively, editor, manager, and publisher of a German religious newspaper published at Chicago, HI., called the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. On the 22d day of September, 1893, they published in the said paper a communication of and concerning the plaintiff, purp'orting to be a letter from one H. Horn, of Syracuse, N. Y., in the German language, and which, translated into…
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