Salem News Pub. Co. v. Caliga
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
AEDRICH, District Judge.
This is an action for alleged libel through the publication of an article concerning a picture known as “The Guardian Angel.” The picture was the work of the defendant in error, a Boston artist, and had a place at the exhibition of the Society of American Artists at the Art Institute in Chicago. The alleged *966libel resides in a publication which caused it to be believed that the picture was not an original work, but one copied from an earlier picture by Abbot H. Thayer.
One assignment on which the plaintiff in error relies relates to its offer to prove particulars…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- McDuff v. Detroit Evening Journal Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1890
- Nott v. StoddardSupreme Court of Vermont · 1865
- People v. ThorntonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1888
- O'Toole v. Post Printing & Publishing Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Sanford v. RowleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
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