Gordon v. News-Journal Co.

Harrington, J.,

delivering the opinion of thé Court:

This is an action on the case for libel, based on certain articles concerning the plaintiff, which appeared in the Morning News, a newspaper published by the defendant company in the city of Wilmington; and the case is before us on a demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration.

The first six counts of the declaration allege, in substance :

1. That a certain bank in Ridgely, Maryland, had been robbed and the vault thereof exploded by dynamiting.

2. That the defendant, intending to cause it to be suspected and believed that the plaintiff had been…