Lewis v. Soule
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Oalhoun Circuit. This was an action for the publication by plaintiff in error, of an alleged libel of and concerning the plaintiff below.
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Error to Oalhoun Circuit. This was an action for the publication by plaintiff in error, of an alleged libel of and concerning the plaintiff below. It was tried at the April term of the Calhoun Circuit, 1853, anfi resulted in a verdict for plaintiff of $154. There were several special assignments of error — the principal of which, were, that if the words set forth in the several counts of the declaration respectively were actionable at all, their actionable quality arose from extrinsic circumstances which were not averred, and they could have no application to plaintiff in error, and also that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Johnson, J.
The matter charged as libelous, is alleged to have been published in a public newspaper called the Marshall Statesman, published in Marshall, Calhoun county.
The declaration contains four counts, and a verdict was taken for damages assessed upon the whole declaration.
Numerous errors are assigned, and among others the plaintiff assigned for error that the third and fourth, counts in the declaration- are not good, for the reason,
1. That the matters therein set forth are not libelous; and.
2. That they have no application to the plaintiff.
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