Evening Post Pub. Co. v. Voight

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

This is a writ of error by the defendant in the court below to review a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury. The assignments of error impugn the rulings of the trial judge in admitting evidence, and some of the instructions to the jury given and refused.

The action was for a libel published by the defendant in the Evening Post newspaper, which, in substance, stated that the plain tiff was formerly the agent at Chicago of the American Casualty Insurance & Security Company, and was dismissed after the company had obtained a judgment against him…