Johnson v. Bradstreet Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Libel. Pleadings. Justification. Practice. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1888. James Johnson sued the Bradstreet Company for $5,000, alleging that it is a corporation which keeps on file at its various offices in the United States, or pretends so to keep, and furnishes or pretends to furnish, to all persons who pay therefor, information as to the worth and character of all persons engaged in mercantile pursuits.
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Libel. Pleadings. Justification. Practice. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1888. James Johnson sued the Bradstreet Company for $5,000, alleging that it is a corporation which keeps on file at its various offices in the United States, or pretends so to keep, and furnishes or pretends to furnish, to all persons who pay therefor, information as to the worth and character of all persons engaged in mercantile pursuits. Also that it had damaged him in the sum of $5,000 by falsely and maliciously uttering and publishing of and concerning him, on the- 1st of December, 1884,…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
Johnson recovered damages against the Bradstreet Company, on account of a libel which he alleged had been written and published concerning him. The Bradstreet Company moved for a new trial on several grounds, but mainly upon the ground that the court erred in refusing to allow them to open and conclude the case to the jury. They contended that inasmuch as they had pleaded justification, they were entitled to the opening and conclusion. The court granted a new trial, and granted it, we presume, mainly upon this ground; because the other grounds of the motion appear to have…
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