Howe Machine Co. v. Souder

Jackson, Judge.

Souder sued the Howe Machine Company on the following publication, which appeared in the Columbus Inquirer of August 7th, 1874:

“Important Announcement.' — Having had in our employ an agent that we have discovered to he simply a diminutively insignificant and contemptuously unreliable, indolent and dishonest fellow, through whom an impression has become current that we are about discontinuing our business in Columbus, we desire to say that, .notwithstanding any and all such representations that may he or may have been made, we are determined to make our machine more prominently…