Case ID: minn_58/html/0329-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilfillan, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Michael J. Cady vs. Minneapolis Times Co.
    Submitted on briefs July 13, 1894.
    Affirmed July 20, 1894.
    No. 8763.
    Complaint for libel construed.
    Complaint for libel considered, and held not to negative the averments. that the plaintiff was the person intended, by it.
    Appeal by defendant, the Minneapolis Times Company, a corporation, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Henry’ G. Hicks, J.t made February 26, 1894, overruling its demurrer to. the complaint.
    
      Cobb & Wheelwright-, for appellant.
    
      Rea, Hubachek é Healy, for respondent.
   Gilfillan, C. J.

It is not denied — could not well be — that the article complained of is a libel upon plaintiff, if published of and concerning him, so that he was understood to be the person intended. The complaint alleges that he was the person intended, and that the article was so understood, and there is nothing in the complaint to-negative that. The article is of a person described by his business, place of business, physical peculiarities and nicknames, and states that that person removed to Chicago, went into the same business there, and was the Prendergast who killed Carter Harrison. The complaint alleges that plaintiff was intended and known by the description to be so. That is not negatived by the facts that he never-went to Chicago, is not Prendergast, and did not kill Harrison.

Order affirmed.

Buck, J., absent, sick, took no part.

(Opinion published 59 N. W. 1040.)