Ivey v. Pioneer Savings & Loan Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Action for Damages for Libel. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Talladega. This was an action brought by the appellant, D. M. Ivey, against the appellee, the Pioneer Savings & Loan Company, to recover damages for libel. The complaint contained five counts. It is unnecessary to set out the 4th and 5th counts.
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Action for Damages for Libel. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Talladega. This was an action brought by the appellant, D. M. Ivey, against the appellee, the Pioneer Savings & Loan Company, to recover damages for libel. The complaint contained five counts. It is unnecessary to set out the 4th and 5th counts. The first three counts, as originally filed, and as amended, were as follows — the italicised portions being added by amendment, after demurrers sustained to the original complaint: “1. The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of, to-wit, twenty-five thousand dollars damages, for…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
The letter alleged as libellous was a private business letter written by the defendant’s attorney, in Minneapolis, Minn., to his client’s agent, Mr. Stone, at Talladega, Ala., relative to a note and mortgage made by one Jacobs, and the expenses incurred, presumably, in reference thereto, including the charges of the plaintiff for completing or “bringing down” an abstract of titles. It appears satisfactorily from the letter, that Mr. Stone had attended to the business, in Talla-dega, for the defendant, and had forwarded to the latter the note and mortgage, together with bills of expenses…
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