Petsch v. Dispatch Printing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
• Appeal by defendants (the Dispatch Printing Co., and Geo. Thompson, and Carroll S. Bartram, two of its officers, the former being also manager of the company, and the latter one of the editors and managers of the St. Paul Dispatch, a daily newspaper published by it) from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Simons, J., presiding, overruling their joint demurrer to the complaint, the grounds of demurrer being defect of parties defendant and failure to state a…
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• Appeal by defendants (the Dispatch Printing Co., and Geo. Thompson, and Carroll S. Bartram, two of its officers, the former being also manager of the company, and the latter one of the editors and managers of the St. Paul Dispatch, a daily newspaper published by it) from an order of the district court for Ramsey county, Simons, J., presiding, overruling their joint demurrer to the complaint, the grounds of demurrer being defect of parties defendant and failure to state a cause of action. The complaint alleges that on April 7, 1888, there was holden in St. Paul a democratic convention for…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The questions presented for consideration in this case arise upon demurrer to the complaint. The statute provides that in cases of libel it shall not be necessary to state in the complaint any extrinsic facts for the purpose of showing the application to the plaintiff of the defamatory matter out of which the cause of action arose, but it shall be sufficient to state generally that the same was published concerning the plaintiff. This, however, does not dispense with the necessity of alleging extrinsic facts by way of inducement to show that the publication is libellous, or at least…
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- Fry v. BennettThe Superior Court of New York City · 1851
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