Jones v. Greeley

Maxwell, J :

In the argument of counsel for appellants, some of the questions discussed are treated as if the case made by the first and second counts of the declaration was not a ease of libel actionable per se. We think otherwise. The charge in both counts is that appellants published of appellee that “ if he (meaning the plaintiff) is posing as a good man, when as a matter of fact, his conduct has been and is the reverse of what is supposed to befit the character of a good man, it is not only legitimate and proper, but it is a duty which a journalist owes to the people to strip off *638the…