Perret v. New Orleans Times Newspaper

This is an action of slander. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is liable to him in damages to the amount of ten thousand dollars, for the publication of a card signed by some unknown and irresponsible person’s whose residence is unknown and whose names are fictitious, containing false, malicious and libelous charges against him by which lie has been greatly injured and dam- • aged in the estimation of his friends and the public. The card •complained of is couched in these words :

■“New Orleans, February 39, 1869..“We, the undersigned, most respectfully lay before the public the…