Craig v. Wright

This action was instituted by the plaintiff, Craig, to recover damages from the defendant, Wright, for libel. It arose under the following circumstances: In 1920 Wright was tried and convicted in Major county on a charge of failing to send his child to school as required by the compulsory school laws. Craig was a witness against him in that case. Both parties lived at.Ring-wood and were in business there, and Wright was postmaster. After the conviction, and while the appeal therefrom was pending in the Criminal Court of Appeals, Wright published several articles in a weekly paper published at…