Dabold v. Chronicle Publishing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an. order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. Appeal from an order sustaining demurred to complaint in substantially the following words: “That the plaintiff is a produce merchant, and has been such produce merchant at the times hereinafter mentioned, with his place of business at La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from an. order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: O. B. Wyman, Circuit Judge. Appeal from an order sustaining demurred to complaint in substantially the following words: “That the plaintiff is a produce merchant, and has been such produce merchant at the times hereinafter mentioned, with his place of business at La Crosse, Wisconsin. That on January 2-1,. 1900, the defendant falsely and maliciously caused to be printed and published in the La Crosse Morning Chronicle, a daily newspaper published at La Crosse, Wisconsin, a certain libelous n article of the 'plaintiff, and of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
It is obvious that the pleader intended to point •out by means of tlie innuendo three defamatory meanings, .as conveyed by the published words: first, selling, or offering or exposing for sale, a compound in imitation of pure yellow butter, which contains any admixture of foreign fat,— a crime under sec. 4607c, Stats. 1898; second, selling ■the same without a license, erroneously claimed to be forbidden by secs. 4607c aiid 4607ci/ and, third, acting fraudulently and corruptly as a produce dealer in selling an adulterated commodity as pure.
The second of these alleged meanings may be dismissed…
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