Loomis v. Des Moines News Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Court. — Hon. T. F. Stevenson, Judge. This action is to recover damages for the publication by defendant in its daily newspaper of a certain libelous article of and concerning the plaintiff when a candidate for election to the office of mayor of the city of Des Moines.
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Appeal from Pollc District Court. — Hon. T. F. Stevenson, Judge. This action is to recover damages for the publication by defendant in its daily newspaper of a certain libelous article of and concerning the plaintiff when a candidate for election to the office of mayor of the city of Des Moines. The article charges that plaintiff, as sheriff, omitted to make timely and proper service of legal process, as required of him by law, in a case between the city of Des Moines and the Des Moines Waterworks Company, because of favors expected and thereafter given by and accepted from said waterworks…
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2 As we have just said, the court sustained the motion for a new trial on two of the grounds set up, and expressly overruled it upon all others. We may concede that upon such a record, the appellee not having appealed, we capnot inquire whether the motion might not properly have been sustained on other grounds than those specified by the trial court. Collins v. Brazill, 63 Iowa, 432. A different question would be presented if the court, instead of overruling the motion on all grounds but those it sustained, had made no mention of them. Voorhees v. Arnold, 108 Iowa, 77. - Only one of the…
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- Voorhees v. ArnoldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
- Smith v. YagerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1891
- Collins v. BrazillSupreme Court of Iowa · 1884
- National State Bank v. BoeschSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- Arneson v. ThorstadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
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- Ward v. Marshalltown Light, Power & Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1906
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- Lange v. NissenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1927
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