Howard v. Thompson
New York Supreme Court
This was an action for libels published by the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff and his official conduct as a public officer, tried at the New York circuit in November, 1837, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the circuit judges.
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This was an action for libels published by the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff and his official conduct as a public officer, tried at the New York circuit in November, 1837, before the Hon. Ogden Edwards, one of the circuit judges. The libels consisted of three letters written by the defendant, addressed to Levi Woodbury, secretary of the treasury of the United States, in the months of June and July, 1836. The plaintiff had for several years been employed in the custom house department at Staten Island, first as a boarding officer then as store keeper and afterwards as an…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cowen, J.
This is an action in which the plaintiff, Howard, complains, that while he held the office of inspector of the customs and keeper of the public stores of the United States, the defendant falsely libelled him by addressing certain letters to the secretary of the *323treasury, charging and offering to prove that the plaintiff had been guilty of fraud in the execution of his trust as such keeper; specifying particularly the conversion of timber belonging to the United States in 1832. The secretary of the treasury was the officer who had legal cognizance of the complaint, and…
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