Supreme Court of Iowa October 15, 1897 (Hollenbeck v. Hall)

Ladd, J.

Conceding the letter to> have been published, was it libelous? Our statute defines “libel” to be “the malicious defamation of a person made public by any printing, writing, sign, picture, representation or -effigy, tending to provoke him to- wrath or expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to deprive *216him of the benefits of public confidence and social inter: course.