Neeb v. Hope
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
. Error to the court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 129. Case by W. H. Hope against L. and W. Neeb, proprietors of a German newspaper, Freihert’s Freund, published in the city of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for the publication of an alleged libel on the plaintiff. Plea, not guilty.
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. Error to the court of Common Pleas No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1885, No. 129. Case by W. H. Hope against L. and W. Neeb, proprietors of a German newspaper, Freihert’s Freund, published in the city of Pittsburgh, to recover damages for the publication of an alleged libel on the plaintiff. Plea, not guilty. On the trial of the case before Collier, A. L. J., the following facts appeared: In the issue of 20th óf January, 1883, of the Freihert’s Freund, published in the German language, appeared an article of which the following is an English translation: ACCOUNT…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
Any malicious publication, written, printed or painted, which by words or signs tends to expose a person to contempt, ridicule, hatred or degradation of character, is a libel; and the' person libeled may recover damages, unless it be shown that. the publication was true, or that it was justifiably made: Barr v. Moore, 87 Pa. St., 385.
Malice is said to be essential to an action for libel, but it is malice in a special and technical sense, which exists in the absence of lawful excuse, and where there may be no spite or ill-will, or disposition to injure others. Every publication having the…
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