Johnson v. St. Louis Dispatch Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court'. cited : Hall v. Adkins,, 59 Mo. 144; Towns, on Slander and Libel, 526, sec. 335 ; Sparkham v. Pye, Cro, Jac. 532 ; Stokes v. Arcy, 8 Jones L. 66; Gray v. Wayle, Story, 159 ; Blanchard v. Fisk, 2' N, H. 398; Nelson v, Musgrove, 10 Mo. 648; Hodgson v. Scarlett, 1 B. & Aid, 233 ; Tozer v, Mashford, 4 Eng.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court'. cited : Hall v. Adkins,, 59 Mo. 144; Towns, on Slander and Libel, 526, sec. 335 ; Sparkham v. Pye, Cro, Jac. 532 ; Stokes v. Arcy, 8 Jones L. 66; Gray v. Wayle, Story, 159 ; Blanchard v. Fisk, 2' N, H. 398; Nelson v, Musgrove, 10 Mo. 648; Hodgson v. Scarlett, 1 B. & Aid, 233 ; Tozer v, Mashford, 4 Eng. Law & Eq. 451; Harrison v. King, 4 Price, 45; Hancock v. Winter, 7 Taunt. 205 ;• Bush v. Smith, 2 Jones, 157; City of St. Louis v, Russell, 9 Mo. 507 ; Blair v. Perpetual Ins. Co., 10 Mo. 559 ; Ruggles v. Collier, 43 Mo. 353; Bank of Louisville v.' Young,…
1Opinion of the CourtBake well , J.
This is an action for libel. The petition states that defendant is a corporation engaged in printing and publishing a newspaper called the St. Louis Dispatch, in pursuance of its corporate powers, and that whilst so engaged, on August 5, 1874, whilst plaintiff was an attorney at law, practicing his profession in Jefferson City and elsewhere in Missouri, defendant, maliciously intending to deprive plaintiff of his good name as a citizen and in his profession, and to injure his business, did print and publish in the St. Louis Dispatch the following false, scandalous, and malicious defamatory…
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