Stair v. Journal & Tribune Co.

The declaration shows that the Journal & Tribune Company published of and concerning the plaintiff that he slapped a boy and girl in Park City, and had been fined $40 and sentenced to the workhouse, and had sued out a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Nelson; that the evidence before Judge Nelson showed that the plaintiff in the instance in which the boy was claimed to be struck, was declared not guilty by Judge Nelson as the proof showed it was in self-defense, the boy being hit a flat-handed blow when he was stooping to pick up a stone to hit prisoner. In the instance in which the prisoner…