Gattis v. Kilgo.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by T. J. Gattis against J. O. Kilgo, B. ,N. Duke and W. R. Odell, 'heard by Judge W. A. Hoke and a jury, at November Term, 1900, of the Superior Court of Gbanviixe County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The publication of the pamphlet that contained the speech of the defendant Kilgo, which published speech is the foundation of the plaintiff’s cause of action, was the result of an investigation held by the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, of which body the defendants Duke and Odell were members, of certain charges of ineompetency and moral unfitness against, the President of the college, the defendant KilgO'. There was also included in tires© charges a statement to the effect that the spirit of commercialism in its lowest and most dangerous form was being introduced into the student…
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