Lewis v. Hayes
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County. J. E. Welch, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Plaintiff sued to recover damages for a libel published of and concerning her in the San Jose Daily Mercury, a newspaper owned and published by the defendant and appellant. The complaint charged in two counts; in the first, seeking compensation in the sum of ten thousand dollars for general damages; in the second, seeking compensation in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for special damages alleged to have been occasioned to her by the injury to her lodging-house business and to her business as an instructress in the art of dancing. Trial was had before a jury, which returned a verdict for…
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