Gomez v. Hawaiian Gazette Co.

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

JUDD, C.J.

In this case the plaintiff obtained a verdict and a bill of exceptions was allowed the defendants. The case was tried in the Circuit Court, First Circuit, it being an action of trespass on the case in which plaintiff claimed damages of the defendant corporation and its manager, for an alleged libel published in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, a newspaper printed and published by the said defendants, in the issue of November 30, 1893.

*109Tbe alleged defamatory words taken from tbe declaration and omitting tbe innendoes are as follows: “Gomez and bis dope. Tbe…