Andrew v. Deshler

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Green, J.

This was an action on the case for special damage sustained by reason of the publication of an alleged slander of the plaintiff’s title to letters patent for the “ improvement in processes and apparatus for rendering fats.” The alleged libel was in the form of a notice or caution published in several newspapers by the defendant as secretary of the United States Dairy Company, as follows:

“ To all whom it may concern: The United States Dairy Company, the sole owners of the patents of Hyppolite Mege, Páris, for the United States, for the…