Wilson v. Noonan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for libel. The complaint, after some prefatory matter, alleges that on or about the 18th of March, 1866, during the session of the legislature of this state for that year, the defendant, at the city and county of Milwaukee, did maliciously publish and cause to be published, in the G-erman language, in a newspaper printed and published in said city, called the “ Banner and Yolksfreund,” of and concerning the…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for libel. The complaint, after some prefatory matter, alleges that on or about the 18th of March, 1866, during the session of the legislature of this state for that year, the defendant, at the city and county of Milwaukee, did maliciously publish and cause to be published, in the G-erman language, in a newspaper printed and published in said city, called the “ Banner and Yolksfreund,” of and concerning the plaintiff, and of and concerning his official action as a member of the state senate, certain false, scandalous and defamatory…
1Opinion of the CourtDixon, C. J.
In Neilson v. Columbian Ins. Co., 1 Johns., 301, the defendants offered in evidence the case made on the former motion for a new trial, corrected before the judge, in order to contrast the testimony of .the plaintiff’s two principal witnesses, delivered on the first trial, with their depositions read at the second, and thereby to lessen their credibility. The case was admitted, and, on motion for a new trial, the supreme court said: “The admission of the case made on a former trial, as evidence to show what the witnesses then swore, in order to discredit them at the second trial, was…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Seymour v. . WilsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1856
- Beard v. DedolphWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- The People v. . SaxtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1860
- Wilson v. NoonanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
- Griffin v. . MarquardtNew York Court of Appeals · 1860
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3Cited by31 opinions
- State ex inf. Crow v. ShepherdSupreme Court of Missouri · 1903
- Vankirk v. Citizens' Insurance Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1891
- Eviston v. CramerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
- Hacker v. HeineyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901
- Henderson v. FoxSupreme Court of Georgia · 1889
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