Pokrok Zapadu Publishing Co. v. Zizkovsky
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Ferguson, J. The facts are stated by the commissioner. As no special damages are alleged, no cause of action is stated in the petition unless the article complained of is libelous per se. (Geislerv. Brown, 6 Neb., 254.) The language of the publication is not libelous per se.
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Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Ferguson, J. The facts are stated by the commissioner. As no special damages are alleged, no cause of action is stated in the petition unless the article complained of is libelous per se. (Geislerv. Brown, 6 Neb., 254.) The language of the publication is not libelous per se. (Odgers, Libel & Slander, p. 1; Geisler v. Brown, 6 Neb.,. 254; Criminal Code, sec. 47.) The cemetery association was a public corporation. The alleged libel was a privileged communication, and there-should be no finding against the publishing company…
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
Anton Zizkovsky sued the Poprok Zapadu Publishing Company (hereinafter called the “ Publishing Company ”) in the district court of Douglas county, for damages for an alleged libel published by the latter of and concerning the former. Zizkovsky had a verdict and judgment, and the Publishing Company prosecutes error to this court.
On and prior to October, 1890, the Publishing Company was a corporation engaged in the printing and publishing, in the city of Omaha, of a newspaper in the Bohemian language, which paper circulated almost exclusively among Bohemians of the state — a very large…
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