Culmer v. Canby
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.
1Opinion of the Court
DAY, Circuit Judge.
This case presents a single question, namely, the correctness of the ruling of the court below upon a general démurrer to the petition undertaking to recover for an alleged libel. The petition is quite voluminous, — more so than is required under the Ohio practice which prevails on the law side of the federal courts. Under section 5093, Rev. St. Ohio, it is sufficient to state in an action for libel that the defamatory matter was published of the plaintiff. In the petition a part of the alleged libel is set up, with accompanying innuendoes, and a copy in full of the alleged…
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