Lehner v. Associated Press

The article complained of is substantially the same as that involved in Lehner v. Berlin Publishing Co. 211 Wis. 119, 246 N. W. 579, and was there held not to be a true report of a court proceeding, and therefore not privileged and libelous per se. The publication of it in a newspaper would therefore render the publisher liable in an action based thereon, unless it were proved in defense that the defamatory matter was true. No proof of its truth appears in the evidence herein. The publication of the article in the Oshkosh Northwestern and other newspapers would render the defendants herein…