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Libel And Slander - Privileged Reports Of Public Proceedings - Confession To Prosecuting Attorney Implicating Plaintiff, James D. Ritchie
Libel And Slander - Privileged Reports Of Public Proceedings - Confession To Prosecuting Attorney Implicating Plaintiff, James D. Ritchie
Michigan Law Review
Defendant published in its newspaper the contents of confessions made to a prosecuting attorney by third parties, implicating plaintiff in crimes for which he had been indicted but the commission of which he denied. In an action for damages for libel, held, that the taking of the confession was neither a judicial proceeding nor an official proceeding authorized by law, and therefore its publication was not privileged. Caller Times Publishing Co. v. Chandler, (Tex. 1939) 130 S. W. (2d) 853.