Gabe v. McGinnis

The appellee sued the appellant in the Monroe Circuit Court, for libel. A change of venue was taken to the Orange Circuit Court. The complaint was in three paragraphs.

The first, after an endorsement of good character, etc., alleged that the appellant, the defendant below, was the owner, editor and publisher of the Bloomington Progress, a newspaper of general circulation, etc. “And plaintiff further says that, before the committing by the said defendant of the grievance hereinafter set forth, a certain civil action had been depending in the Monroe Circuit Court, in the State of Indiana,…