Herrick v. Tribune Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Libel.—Error to the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles A. Bishop, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Waterman
delivered the opinion of the court.
The writ of error in this cause is sued out to reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court sustaining a demurrer to the declaration in an action for an alleged libel.
The declaration consists of eleven counts. Six of these close with the innuendo “ Thereby meaning and intending falsely that plaintiff had feloniously caused the death of said Edward P. Herrick.”
The meaning of words can not be extended by innuendo. Townshend on Slander and Libel, Sec. 337; Patterson et ux. v. Edwards et ux., 2 Gilman, 720.
Upon demurrer it is for the…
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