Pierce v. Rodliff
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions by plaintiff. Action for libel, in which the jury gave a verdict for the defendant. The case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitehouse, J.
This was a suit for publishing in the Eastern Gazette, at Dexter, August 24, 1899, and twice in September, 1899, the following advertisement alleged to be a libel upon the plaintiff, viz:
“Wanted.
All persons that have put bills for collection in hands of Thos. H. B. Pierce of Dexter from the year 1885 to August 1899, and received unsatisfactory returns are requested to communicate with X. Y. Z. Post-Office, Dexter, Me.,” meaning, according to the innuendo in the declaration, that “the plaintiff had since 1885 been conducting his business as an attorney dishonestly and unsatisfactorily to his…
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