Wilson v. Noonan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for libel. The complaint, after certain prefatory matter, avers that on the 13th of March, 1866, during the session of the legislature of this state for that year, at the city and county of Milwaukee, defendant did maliciously publish and cause to be published in the German language, in a newspaper printed and published in said city of Milwaukee, called the “ Banner and Volksfreund,” of and concerning the plaintiff,…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for libel. The complaint, after certain prefatory matter, avers that on the 13th of March, 1866, during the session of the legislature of this state for that year, at the city and county of Milwaukee, defendant did maliciously publish and cause to be published in the German language, in a newspaper printed and published in said city of Milwaukee, called the “ Banner and Volksfreund,” of and concerning the plaintiff, and of and concerning his official action as a member of the state senate, certain false, scandalous and defamatory…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
This is an action to recover damages for an alleged libel. The contents of the publication complained of are stated sufficiently in the opinion of Mr. Justice Cole, in 23 Wis. 105, when the case was in this court on an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to the complaint. It was there held that such publication is prima facie libelous, in that it *607charges the plaintiff with having acted corruptly in his capacity as a state senator, and that it is not merely a libel upon him as'a private individual, but is a. libel upon him in his public and official capacity as such senator.
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2Cases cited2 opinions
- B— v. I—Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1867
- Wilson v. NoonanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1868
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