Hoboken Printing & Publishing Co. v. Kahn

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beasley, Chief Justice.

The ground of the action was a libel published by the plaintiff in error.

There is but a single exception relied on for the reversal of the judgment, and that is the offer of the publishing company that was the defendant in the suit, to prove that neither it nor its agent had originated the calumnious statement, but that it had been received from other persons in the way of common gossip.

This offer of proof was overruled by the trial judge, and in such action we think there was error.

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