Burton, Lingo & Co. v. O'Niell

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

The appellee recovered from the appellants the sum of $600 in this action, which is for libel. The verdict of the jury requires findings of fact as follows:

The plaintiff, Mrs. O’Niell, was during the years 1890 and 1891 a widow with several children, engaged in the business of keeping a boarding house in Fort Worth, Texas. The appellants were a mercantile firm doing business in that city.

Mrs. O’Niell was indebted to one C. A. Hall; the latter owed the appellants, Burton, Lingo & Co., the sum of $35.18, besides interest. The appellants claimed that Hall had given them an…