Waterhouse v. Spreckels
Hawaii Supreme Court
Appeal erom Decision oe the Chiee Justice on Demurrer. Plaintiff, in 1864, wrote to W. L. Green a letter of apology, and authorized him to print and circulate 100 copies thereof.
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Appeal erom Decision oe the Chiee Justice on Demurrer. Plaintiff, in 1864, wrote to W. L. Green a letter of apology, and authorized him to print and circulate 100 copies thereof. In 1884, defendants, as plaintiff alleges, intending to injure the character, feelings and reputation of the plaintiff, and without knowledge or consent of said W. L. Green, published and circulated several hundred copies of said letter, to the damage of plaintiff to the amount of $50,000. Held, reversing the decision of the Chief Justice, that the time and manner of the publication complained of made it a libel;…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the Court, by
Austin, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injury. The defendants demurred to the complaint; the Chief Justice overruled the demurrer, and the defendants appealed to this Court.
The allegations of the complaint, in substance, are that the plaintiff, in 1864, wrote to W. L. Green a letter, which is quoted, being an apology for misstatements acknowledged therein to have been made to injure the said W. L. Green, and the firm of which he was a partner, in their business and reputation, and in which the writer says that he encloses a check for $300 to pay…
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