Adams v. Clapp

The plaintiff appeals from orders sustaining the defendants’ demurrers to his declaration in four counts in an action of tort for libel. The averments in each count are substantially the same. They differ in the names of the defendants and, in the counts against the individual defendants, in the allegation that publication of the alleged libel was made in two weekly newspapers in Hingham as well as in The Patriot Ledger. Photostats of the alleged libellous publications are annexed to the declaration and are incorporated in the counts by reference.

One ground of demurrer raised by all of the…