Hurley v. Fall River Daily Herald Publishing Co.
Decision Date | 09 January 1885 |
Citation | 138 Mass. 334 |
Parties | William J. Hurley v. Fall River Daily Herald Publishing Company. Patrick Gillan v. Same |
Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Argued October 29, 1884.
Bristol.
Two actions of tort. The declaration in each case alleged that on December 27, 1883, the defendant caused to be published in a newspaper called the Fall River Daily Herald, published by the defendant, a false and malicious libel concerning the plaintiff, as follows:
The defendant demurred to the declaration, for the following reasons:
The Superior Court sustained the demurrer, and ordered judgment for the defendant; and the plaintiffs appealed to this court.
Judgment reversed, and demurrer overruled.
D. V Sullivan, for the plaintiffs.
H. K Braley,...
To continue reading
Request your trial-
Lancour v. Herald And Globe Association
...etc. Co. 279 Mass. 176, 178. Lundin v. Post etc. Co., 217 Mass. 213, 216. Kimball v. Post etc. Co., 199 Mass. 213, 216. Hurley v. Fall River etc. Co., 138 Mass. 334, 336. Cowley v. Pulsifer, 137 Mass. 392, The defendant conclusively admitted libel in the publication sued upon in this action......
-
Lancour v. Herald & Globe Ass'n
...207, 209; Kimball v. Post Pub. Co., 199 Mass. 248, 85 N.E. 103, 19 L.R.A.,N.S., 862, 864, 127 Am.St. Rep. 492; Hurley v. Fall River Daily Herald Pub. Co., 138 Mass. 334, 336; Amick v. Montross, 206 Iowa 51, 220 N.W. 51, 58 A.L.R. 1147, 1150. The principle is of long standing. It was applied......
-
Peck v. Wakefield Item Co.
...Mass. 53, 55, 46 N. E. 402) is not essential to a libel charging fraud. See Gay v. Homer, 13 Pick, 535, 537, 543;Hurley v. Fall River Daily Herald Publishing Co., 138 Mass. 334;Haynes v. Clinton Printing Co., 169 Mass. 512, 513, 48 N. E. 275;Kimball v. Boston Transcript Co., 199 Mass. 248, ......
-
Maloof v. Post Pub. Co.
...the less defamatory. Lundin v. Post Publishing Co., 217 Mass. 213, 215, 104 N.E. 480, 52 L.R.A.,N.S., 207; Hurley v. Fall River Daily Herald Publishing Co., 138 Mass. 334, 336;Haynes v. Clinton Printing Co., 169 Mass. 512, 513, 48 N.E. 275;Kenney v. McLaughlin, 5 Gray 3,66 Am.Dec. 345;Cowle......