Brown v. Autrey

Blandford, Justice.

Brown sued Autrey for libel. The libel consisted of a letter, addressed to one Bill Sexton, which was as follows:

“Bill, this is to notify you that I want you to get out of my house and off of my place in 10 days from this date, as you have got that darned hog-stealing Jim Brown in with you, he wrote you a note and sent by Prat yesterday that he could not come home last nite, so you can look you 'and him a home, for he cannot roost on my land, nor you either if you let him stay round you. You can come up and settle, and bring some one with you to make the settlement as I…