Hocks v. Sprangers
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. To the point that defendant’s communications to his fellow church members were conditionally privileged, they cited 13 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (1st ed.), 4Ó3-405, and notes;. Id. 410, 411, 423; 18 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2d ed.), 1029, 1032; Moore v. Manufacturers’ Nat.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Je., Circuit Judge. To the point that defendant’s communications to his fellow church members were conditionally privileged, they cited 13 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (1st ed.), 4Ó3-405, and notes;. Id. 410, 411, 423; 18 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law (2d ed.), 1029, 1032; Moore v. Manufacturers’ Nat. Banlc, 123 N. T. 420, 426; Townshend, Slander & Libel (3d ed.), §§ 209, 241; Trebby v. Transcript P. Go. 74 Minn. 83, 73 Am. St. Nep. 330, 332; Buclcsiaff v. Nicies, 94 Wis. 34; Landis v. Campbell, 79 Mo. 433, 49 Am. Kep. 239;…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed November 29, 1901:
Cassoday, C. J.
This is an action for slander, commenced April 20, 1900. The complaint states four separate causes of action, and each alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff was and always has been a single female, of pure and chaste *127life] and bad been in tbe employ of Eev. 0. Delouw, a Eo-man Catholic priest, as housekeeper, at the town of Holland, in Brown county, for sixteen, years then last past, and ■that the defendant, maliciously intending to injure the plaint- ' iff in her good name, fame, and credit, and to bring her into public…
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