Upton v. Times-Democrat Publishing Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff sued the defendant for damages in the sum of five thousand dollars for publishing a telegraphic dispatch, in which it was stated that “The Rev. Thos. J. Upton is a negro.”

*142It appears that at a meeting of the Police Jury of the parish of East Baton Rouge, a petition was read by the Rev. Upton, asking that body to order an election in that parish with a view of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors* There was a counter (petition presented by another resident of the parish in favor of the indefinite postponement of such an…