Call v. Larabee

I. The plaintiff sets out in his petition the cause of action in the following language:

“That he is a resident of Harrison county, Iowa, and has been for four years last past, and a man of good moral char*213acter; that prior to March 29,1881, he stood well as a moral man and a law abiding citizen among his neighbors and friends; that on or about said date the defendants, willfully designing to injure plaintiff’s good character as a man, maliciously published in the Logan Courier, a weekly newspaper printed and circulated in Harrison county, an article, a copy of which is in the following words,…