Belknap v. Ball

This is an action on the case for libel.

Plaintiff was a candidate for election to the office of Representative in Congress. The “first count in the declaration, after the usual allegations as to the character of plaintiff and his reputation among his neighbors, alleges that the defendant falsely, wickedly, and maliciously did compose, print, and publish, and cause to be composed, printed, and published in the Daily Democrat, a daily newspaper having a large circulation in the district from which plaintiff was a candidate, and in other parts of the State, and also in the Weekly Democrat, the…