Leidig v. Bucher
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: No. 41, to May Term 1873. This was an action on the case for libel, brought November 27th 1869, by John B. Leidig against D. F. Carmony, David H. Kimmel, William P, Eckels and Robert A. Bucher.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland county: No. 41, to May Term 1873. This was an action on the case for libel, brought November 27th 1869, by John B. Leidig against D. F. Carmony, David H. Kimmel, William P, Eckels and Robert A. Bucher. The declaration was that D. F. Carmony, D. H. Kimmel, W. P. Eckels and R. A. Bucher were summoned to answer J. B. Leidig, and the plaintiff complained that whereas he was always held in good repute, &c., and the defendants well knowing the premises but contriving and intending to injure, &c., the plaintiff, “ conspired, combined and confederated…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, July 2d 1873, by
Agkew, J. —
But one assignment of error in this case requires notice, the answer of the court to the plaintiff’s ninth point. The court was asked to instruct the jury, that in order to sustain an action for libel it is not necessary to prove a joint engagement in making and publishing it; that all that is required is to know that each or any one of the defendants is guilty, and the jury can bring in a verdict against all or any one, or separate verdicts against any two or more of them. The court negatived this point, but said the jury…
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