Whitaker v. . Freeman

The declaration, besides the usual introductory averments of good character, etc., alleged a special inducement that the plaintiff was a Congregational clergyman and minister of the gospel, and that the defendant designed to defame him in that character, etc. The declaration then charged the publication of a libel in the form of a letter directed to one H. P., from which particular sentences were selected and stated in various forms, in twenty-five different counts, all exactly alike in the inducements, etc., and setting forth the libelous sentences extracted, not according to the tenor, but…