Nalle v. Oyster
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO' THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. The facts, which involve the practice of bills of exceptions in the District of Columbia and the extent to which statements made by members of a Board of Education, in regard to qualifications of a school teacher are privileged, arq stated in the opinion. There is no absolute privilege where the libelous matter was knowingly false, and malicious and wantonly made.
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ERROR TO' THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. The facts, which involve the practice of bills of exceptions in the District of Columbia and the extent to which statements made by members of a Board of Education, in regard to qualifications of a school teacher are privileged, arq stated in the opinion. There is no absolute privilege where the libelous matter was knowingly false, and malicious and wantonly made. White v. Nichols, 3 How. 266; see also Masterson v. Brown, 72 Fed. Rep. 136; Merchants Ins. Co. v. Buckner, 98 Fed. Rep. 222; McGee v. Insurance Co., 112 Fed. Rep. 854. '…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This is a -writ of error to review a judgment affirming a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District in favor of the defendants in an action for libel and conspiracy.
The declaration contains two counts, the first of which . avers that the plaintiff was a teacher and a member of the body of teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and that the defendants,"' without 'probable cause, but contriving and maliciously intending to injure plaintiff in her character and reputation as a school teacher, wrongfully and maliciously composed and published and filed in the Clerk’s…
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