Sumner v. First Union National Bank

How courts have described this case

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• allegation that plaintiff is a delinquent debtor is not libelous per se, but is instead libelous per quod and requires allegation and proof of special damages
• “An allegation that one owes a delinquent debt does not impute that he has committed a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).