Hewitt v. Pioneer-Press Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action for libel, brought by plaintiff, the only telegraph operator at Pine City, against the defendant, publisher of the Pioneer-Press newspaper. The paragraph complained of was published by defendant in its issue of June 19, 1875, as an item in a column headed “ State News,” and was as follows : “ The Pine City telegraph operator is a bad one. He is now under arrest for attempting to ravish a Swede woman, and seriously injuring a watchman that came to the woman’s rescue.”
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Action for libel, brought by plaintiff, the only telegraph operator at Pine City, against the defendant, publisher of the Pioneer-Press newspaper. The paragraph complained of was published by defendant in its issue of June 19, 1875, as an item in a column headed “ State News,” and was as follows : “ The Pine City telegraph operator is a bad one. He is now under arrest for attempting to ravish a Swede woman, and seriously injuring a watchman that came to the woman’s rescue.” In its answer the defendant pleaded, among other things, in mitigation of damages, that, prior to its publication of the…
1Opinion of the CourtGileillan, C. J.
The motion for a new trial in this case was made upon all the grounds for a new trial allowed by the statutes, and there is nothing in the case to indicate upon which of the grounds the motion was granted. We liavc examined the case as to all the grounds alleged, and •can find nothing upon which we can sustain the order granting the new trial, except the ground of misconduct of the jury, and of error of the court in excluding evidence ■offered by defendant in mitigation of the damages. Upon the first of these the affidavits are very contradictory. At the best, they make out a case of…
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