The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1913-05-01
ney at law or counsellor at law.

published as above set out was circu-
lated generally throughout Bingham
County, Idaho, among the acQuaint-
ances of this plaintiff on said date
by the said manager and under his
direction, and was read by them and
it was understood by them to mean
that it imputed dishonesty to this
plaintiff and they believing by reason
Of the publishing Of said libel that this
plaintiff is dishonest and wholly unfit
to be employed as attorney at law
or counsellor at law or otherwise.
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That said printed publication was
false and defamatory, and by reason
and means thereof this plaintiff has
been and Is greatly injured and pre-
JUDGED in his reputation aforesaid,
and has also lost and been deprived
of great gains and profits, which
would otherwise have arisen and &C.
crued to him in his said profession
and business, to his damage in the
sum Of Three Thousand ($3.000.00)
! Dollars.
Wherefore, This plaintiff prays
end demands judgment against the
cbove named defendants and each Of
them in this his first cause Of action
in the sum of Three Thousand Dollars
and costs and disbursements herein.
For a further and second cause Of
action by this plaintiff against said
defendants, plaintiff alleges:
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Plaintiff hereby reaffirms. and
adopts paragraphs Il and q of his
first cause of action herein and by
this reference makes the same a part
hereof as full as if the same were
copied in full herein.
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That ON the 9th day of February,
1913, at Blackfoot, Bingham County,
State of Idaho, the said defendants
published in a newspaper called the
Blackfoot Optimist the following word
concerning the said plaintiff, and of
and concerning him in his said capa-
city and profession of an attorney at
law and counsellor at law:
Especial Meeting of Town Council
City Attorney Avoids the Law as
Written to Mis-Lead and Hood-Wink
the People. Tho city attorney was re-
quested to look up the quarantine laws
especially relating to measles, and sec
if there were not laws covering the
quarantine on such cases that would
be sufficient to stop the further sprea
of the disease. After studying the
laws pertaining to such matters for
some time, Beakley'' (meaning the
plaintiff herein) 'fcr some reason
or other, perhaps for his selfish
greed for gold, or perhaps for the fear
that he may displease someone who
supported him in the recent election,
or perhaps that he is so crooked that
he could not do anything honestly, ig-
nOred the request Of the council and
avoided reading anything pertaining
to the quarantine of measles. Sec.
100 of the Revised Codes, a portion
of which section was read by him,
covers the subject very clearly, but tn
shyster, to mislead the people, left
out that portion of the section he was
asked to look up. In this section it
provides that measles, chicken pox,
and whooping cough are subject to
the same quarantine as is provided
for scarlet fever, small pox, diphth-
eria, etc., and violations of the same
is subject to the same fines and i'm
prisonment. Can there be any ex
cuse for such actions on the part of
the city Attorney" (meaning thereby
this plaintffD Can there be any rea-
son for the city paying for such SER
vices?"
That the said defendants meant
thereby that in section 100 of the
Idaho Revised Codes there is a pro-
vision or provisions therein giving the
council OF the City of BlackfoOt, Ida
no, to which said council the said
plaintiff herein was at that time the
legal adviser, he being city attorney
for said City Of Blackfoot, Idaho, the
authority to place under quarantine
cases of measles the same as the pro-
per board of health could place a
quarantine, on small pox, scarlet fever
etc., and by the heading of said arti-
Gle above quoted accused this plain
tiff Of malfeasance in office and Of
wilfully and deliberately violating the
oath of office of city attorney of the
City of Blackfoot; and by that portion
Perhaps for his selfish greed for
gold" these defendant meant that this
plaintiffs action was the result of his
being in league with some person or
persons who were willing to give a
monetary consideration, and not
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