Wallis v. Walker

Collard, Judge.

The original petition set out that defendant on the '2d day of February, 1886, “wickedly intending to injure the plaintiff, did maliciously compose and publish of and concerning the plaintiff a ■certain false, scandalous, and defamatory libel in writing, containing among other things the false, scandalous, and defamatory matter following, that is to say.” [Here follows a copy of parts of the writing, charging the president and directors of “ The Island City Ice Company” with a course of mismanagement, unknown to and concealed from the stockholders, calculated to injure and…