Pinn v. Lawson

An appeal from a judgment of the lower court in an action brought by appellant for damages because of an alleged libel.

The appellant, Rev. James L. Pinn, who was pastor of the First Colored Baptist Church, was plaintiff below and claimed damages from the defendants, Emma E. Lawson and Helen Martin, upon a charge that they had willfully, maliciously, and falsely composed and published a libelous statement concerning him by filing the same with the deacon board of the church and stating therein that the plaintiff had been guilty of conduct unbecoming a Christian and a Christian minister,…