Price v. Little

Citations

• 257 Pa. 312
• 101 A. 645
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 731

Syllabus

<p>Libel — Alderman—Newspaper criticism — Satisfaction—Instructions to the jury.</p> <p>In an action for libel brought by an alderman for a publication • charging him with misconduct in office and with being interested in a case upon which he had sat in judgment, it was not reversible error for the trial judge in his charge to the jury to comment upon the ethics which should be observed by a magistrate in disposing of the cases before him, particularly where litigants are not represented by counsel and do not know the law, and to say that a magistrate ought not to sit in a case where the relations between himself and the suitors were so close as to cast suspicion upon him, and that a magistrate who brought a suit in his own court for a ease in which he was personally interested would be guilty of misconduct.</p>