Mount v. Welsh

This action is prosecuted to recover damages for the publication of an alleged libel concerning the plaintiff, a physician and surgeon, by the seven defendants, also physicians and surgeons.

Alexander DeFord was shot through the body and died thirty-one hours later at a hospital in Oregon City, where he was attended by Dr. O. A. Welsh, county physician, one of the defendants herein. Following the death of DeFord, his body was removed to Sellwood, Multnomah County, by his relatives, who employed the plaintiff, Dr. Mount, to make a post-, mortem examination of the body for the purpose of…