Newsom v. Starns

Plaintiff has sued defendants for damages for kidnapping, tarring and feathering him, and has joined with this cause of action separate and distinct demands for damages to his good name and reputation in the sum of $20,000, alleged to have been caused by general publication in the newspapers of the news of plaintiff’s tarring and feathering, and by the special publication by the defendant Issac G. Starns “of vile and defamatory charges against petitioner, alleging that he had been intimate with his, defendant’s, wife.” Plaintiff’s Petition, Arts. 23-30.

The principal demand of plaintiff for…