Barnett v. Loud
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for a libel alleged to have Been published concerning the plaintiff, an attorney at law, in an answer filed by the defendant in an action by an assignee of the plaintiff for $15 alleged to be due as rent of a part of a suite of rooms in the Carney Building in Boston.
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Tort for a libel alleged to have Been published concerning the plaintiff, an attorney at law, in an answer filed by the defendant in an action by an assignee of the plaintiff for $15 alleged to be due as rent of a part of a suite of rooms in the Carney Building in Boston. Writ dated October 16, 1916. The portion of the alleged libellous answer in the action for rent, which was the ground of this action, was as follows: “The defendant admits that he hired a part of the office of the Nathan Barnett mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration substantially as therein set forth. That said office…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The action is tort for libel, and the demurrer admits all the essential allegations of the declaration, from which it appears that at the time of publication the plaintiff was and has since continued to be an attorney at law engaged in the active practice of his profession in this Commonwealth. It cannot be doubted that the accusations, that he invited and allowed a vile and disreputable woman to frequent his office or place of business, and so conducted himself as to bring disgrace upon his office, and that he gambled “for money with cards in his said office during business hours,” were, if…
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