Nevin v. Spieckermann
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia County to review a judgment for plaintiffs in an action for damages for the publication of a libel. This action was brought by August J. W. Spieckermann and Eredericka Brandt Spieckermann, his wife, in right of the wife against Edwin H. Nevin, Jr., president of The Evening News Company, a corporation publishing a daily newspaper in the city of Philadelphia.
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Error to the Common Pleas, No. 2, of Philadelphia County to review a judgment for plaintiffs in an action for damages for the publication of a libel. This action was brought by August J. W. Spieckermann and Eredericka Brandt Spieckermann, his wife, in right of the wife against Edwin H. Nevin, Jr., president of The Evening News Company, a corporation publishing a daily newspaper in the city of Philadelphia. The nwrr. set forth that Eredericka Brandt was a regularly licensed midwife engaged in lawful business in the city of Philadelphia; that The Evening News Company on August 4, 1883, did…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The contention here is a very narrow one. The plaintiff in error submitted one point only to the court. It consists, however, of two parts. The court substantially affirmed the point, but added a qualification to which no just exception can be tahen. The case was one for the jury, and was submitted to it in a correct charge.
Judgment affirmed.
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