Cottrill v. Cramer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL Rom the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for a libel. The complaint contains, first, certain averments as to the plaintiff’s professional character and practice as an attorney-at-law, the extent of his acquaintance in this state, and particularly in the city of Milwaukee, and his appointment by the justices of this court as one of the revisers of the statutes of this state.
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APPEAL Rom the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. Action for a libel. The complaint contains, first, certain averments as to the plaintiff’s professional character and practice as an attorney-at-law, the extent of his acquaintance in this state, and particularly in the city of Milwaukee, and his appointment by the justices of this court as one of the revisers of the statutes of this state. It then alleges that the defendants are the publishers and proprietors of the “Evening "Wisconsin,” a newspaper published daily in the city of Milwaukee, and having an extensive circulation in that city…
1Opinion
On a motion for a rehearing, the respondent’s counsel argued, 1. That the law, especially in this state, as to what constitutes a libelous publication, was fully settled, and that while a pleading might not be held frivolous when it raised for the first time a legal question involving either much or little doubt, yet it should be so held when the question raised by it had already been fully settled by adjudications of the highest court of the state. Note to sec. 247 of Yoorhees’ Code, citing Bank v. Barnes, 4 Abb. Pr., 226; People v. McCumber, 15 How. Pr., 186; Strong v. Stevens, 4 Duer, 668;…
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- Wesley v. BennettThe Superior Court of New York City · 1857
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