Brown v. Burnett

This was a suit by appellee against appellant, to recover damages for the publication of certain articles in a newspaper, of which appellant was the editor and proprietor, said to contain libelous matter against appellee as an attorney-at-law, as attorney of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Company, and as an individual. We can not fully discuss all the questions raised by the several assignments of error without making the records of this court the vehicle either of perpetuating the calumnies contained in these articles, if calumnies they are, or. of further publishing the…