Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Richmond

Station, Chief Justice.—

The nature and result of this action is thus correctly stated in brief of counsel for appellant:

“Appellee sued appellant for three thousand dollars as actual and twenty thousand dollars as exemplary damages, claimed to have resulted to him on account of alleged libelous matter claimed to have been made and published of and concerning appellee by appellant, charging substantially as follows:

“That appellant composed and published a certain discharge list in February, 1884, which was in the form of a printed pamphlet, and which contained among other names the name of…