Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — Libel Suits. [ARTICLE]

Libel Suits.

[St. LouiS Post-Dispatch.] Most people bring libel suits ag.d*’st newspiti-eis when laboring i;n-l r • x <-it*n e- t and when they *-<-ni-- iv<- -.lnidea that the public is expecting iln-m to do soinet! Ing bv the wav of vindicating themselves. Many persons, smarting under a sons-- of injury, are p**rsmid<-d to enter sui f s bv barrntous shys ers who either want to see t l.i-ir nain* s Jn piinl or who are driv en by linugrv ami want to join in a seh *m- which can but. b * classed as indirect 1-lavkrnail. Tw >tli ; rds of these libel suits are taken by the so called lawyers on con’ingem-y. That is to say, they divide the pro**eeds of the huct with the injured plaintiff. Il is gratifying to know tnat out of every hundred thousand dollars wor ! b of libel suits brought against the press not more than one hundred dol lars in the snape of judgement ar-* divided between th-- legal ayenas an I their patrons. The fa ?t seems to l-<-pretty well understood now, and libel suits are not as fashionable as they were a few years ago.