Rearick v. Wilcox

This was an action for libel, brought by Frederick Bearick against the publisher and proprietor of the c: Quincy Whig,” to recover damages for the publication of an article in the paper on the 15th day of April, 1875, in which Bearick, who was then a candidate for the office of police magistrate in the city of Quincy, was, in substance, charged with dishonesty and corruption; that if elected he would improve “every opportunity for peculation that might, by possibility, attach to the office;” that he had been guilty of petty dishonesty while holding the office of mayor; that, by his “own…