Price v. Conway

Citations

• 134 Pa. 340
• 19 A. 687
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 709

Syllabus

<p>1. Any written words published of another, which have a tendency to injure the latter, in his or her office, profession, calling, or trade, are libelous, and, in a civil action therefor, it is unnecessary that the declaration or statement of claim should contain an averment of special damage.</p> <p>2. The office of the innuendo is to define the defamatory meaning which the plaintiff sets upon the words; to show how they come to have that meaning, and how they relate to the plaintiff; and, if capable of the meaning ascribed, it is for the jury to say whether they were used in that sense or not.</p>