Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — A Black-Listing Case Decided. [ARTICLE]

A Black-Listing Case Decided.

The Supreme Court of Texas, Friday, reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Richmond, a railroad conductor who sued the Missouri Pacific for damages for publishing him on the black list as a conductor discharged for carelessness. The Supreme Court holds that the case was not actionable for libel, for absence of express malice in the publication, and that a communication in reference to matter in which the person at interest is privileged if made to another for protecting that interest, and that a communication in tbe discharge of a duty, and looking to the prevention of wrong toward another on the public, is so privileged, when made in good faith. The judgement is reversed.