Legal Opinion

Stewart v. Wilson

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided March 28, 1877PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the court of common pleas of Hennepin county, entered pursuant to an order of Young, J., made at the trial, dismissing the case for failure of the complaint to state a cause of action.

1Opinion of the CourtCornell, J.

This action was dismissed in the court below on the ground that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, to which ruling the plaintiff excepted, and the case is now before us, upon appeal from the judgment, to review this alleged error.

The article, the publication of which is claimed as a libel, contains what purports to be a copy of a duly verified answer, put in by defendant Wilson, to a complaint in an action in the court of common pleas of Hennepin county, wherein Levi M. Stewart is plaintiff, and the said Eugene M. Wilson, Edgar Nash, and several…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Kinney v. . NashNew York Court of Appeals · 1849
  2. Sumner v. BuelNew York Supreme Court · 1815
  3. Caldwell v. RaymondNew York Supreme Court · 1855

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Pavesich v. New England Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Georgia · 1904
  2. Donna W. Schuster and Donald E. Hanson v. U. S. News & World Report, Inc., a Corporation, and Time, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
  3. Ewell v. BoutwellSupreme Court of Virginia · 1924
  4. Price v. Viking Press, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1985
  5. Schuster v. U. S. News & World Report, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1978

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