Maclean v. Scripps

The issues in this case, although several assignments of error appear in the record, were mainly rested on a few classes of questions. The libel sued on, which contained recitals tending to 'show that plaintiff, while a medical professor in the University, had illicit relations with a Canadian lady patient and kept up an obscene correspondence with her, was claimed by defendant to have been published under circumstances rendering him legally blameless. The plea of not guilty was accompanied by a notice which relied first, on privilege, resting on the previous publication in Canadian…