Gunning v. Appleton

The plaintiff sues to recover $25,000 damages from the defendants, who compose the firm of D. Appleton & Co., for an alleged libel published in the New York Medical Journal, of which the defendants are and were the publishers and proprietors. He avers, in his complaint, that for nearly forty years past he has been and still is a practicing dental surgeon, and was of good name, fame and credit in such profession: That on or about March 1, 1879, the defendants maliciously published, concerning plaintiff, in their said journal, a certain article containing many detractive misstatements, and…