Laudati v. Stea
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for libel. Heard on exceptions of plaintiff and sustained.
1Opinion of the CourtStearns, J.
The action is trespass on the ease for libel.. The plea is the general issue. After a jury trial, which resulted in a verdict for the defendant Stea, the case is now in this court on plaintiff’s bill of exceptions.
The defendant Stea was the presiding officer of one of the subordinate lodges of the order of the Sons of Italy, a large-fraternal organization of men of Italian descent. The plaintiff is a young man of .good reputation, who is engaged in the real estate business in the Silver Lake District of Providence. Plaintiff was a member of the organization in 1917, but, at the time of the…
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