Orth v. Featherly

The plaintiff is a merchant carrying on a general business in the towns of Au Sable, Oscoda, and St. Ignaee. The defendant is the proprietor and publisher of the Lakeside Monitor, published at Au Sable.

*316This is an action of libel, brought upon the following article published in defendant’s paper, July 9, 1887:

“George Orth in Deep Water.

“ In the Monitor of last week there were propounded to George Orth several very pertinent questions, among which was one wherein Orth was asked if he, as supervisor of the poor, ever furnished supplies to the inmates of the Shore Hospital, and charged them up to…