Manire v. Hubbard
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 41 — Action for Libel — APPEAL FROM HICKMAN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. (No brief in record.) The allegations- of the petition, reduced -to its simplest form, states that the appellant, Dr.' Maniré, was a reputable physician engaged in the practice of his profession in and around the city of Columbus, -and had built up deservedly a large and lucrative practice, and the appellees well knowing these facts, falsely and maliciously wrote…
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Case 41 — Action for Libel — APPEAL FROM HICKMAN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment fob Defendants and Plaintiff Appeals. (No brief in record.) The allegations- of the petition, reduced -to its simplest form, states that the appellant, Dr.' Maniré, was a reputable physician engaged in the practice of his profession in and around the city of Columbus, -and had built up deservedly a large and lucrative practice, and the appellees well knowing these facts, falsely and maliciously wrote and published of and concerning appellant, these false and slanderous words: “That there was no cases of smallpox in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM.
Ajotirming.
This was an action for libel. The substance of the petition is that appellant is a physician, with a large and lucrative practice; and that the 'appellees, knowing this fact on the 14th of March, 1890, falsely and maliciously caused to be published in a newspaper known as the “Bardwell Star,” a writing, signed by them, in the following words: “'That there were no 'cases of smallpox in Oolum!bus,nor had been, as set out in the letters of Drs. Maniré and Craves, published in the Bardwell Star; that the negroes who were said to have the smallpox had…
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