Croft v. Thurston

This is an appeal taken from a judgment rendered on a verdict for defendant in an action for alleged libel.

The complaint alleges that defendant as the owner and publisher of the Judith Basin County Press, a weekly newspaper published at Stanford, published therein on July 22, 1926, of and concerning the plaintiff, who was then the treasurer of Judith Basin county, the following four articles:

1. “One item of the report, referred to as Claim No. 12115, by James M. Croft, county treasurer, calls the attention of the board to the fact that Mr. Croft illegally collected $33.90 as commission on the…