Eviston v. Cramer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Mihocmkee County. Action for libel. The newspaper article upon which the action was based, and which is set out in the complaint with matter of inducement, innuendoes, etc., is of considerable length, and will he omitted here, as its general purport is sufficiently stated in the opinion. Defendants demurred to the complaint as not stating a cause of action, and appealed from an order overruling their demurrer.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
In support of the demurrer it is insisted that the publication set out in the_ complaint is not upon its face libelous. In that view we are unable to concur. It seems to us that the obvious tendency of the publication was to disparage the character of the plaintiff and bring him into public ridicule and contempt. Undoubtedly the whole article should be considered together, in order to determine its character. If we so consider it, it charges or states, in substance, that the plaintiff, while acting as the official sealer of weights and measures, and as inspector of scales in and for the city…
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