Crall

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages from defendants because of the alleged publication of certain libelous statements affecting said plaintiff. A demurrer on both general and special grounds was interposed to the complaint, which demurrer was sustained by the court and judgment followed dismissing the action after plaintiff had failed to amend his pleading. The appeal is taken from that judgment.

Four causes of action were set out in the complaint, the first three of which were based upon certain notices alleged to have been sent to certain corporations. The first was a notice to a fruit company directing them not to pay any moneys on account of the purported sale of oranges from certain land in Orange County pending an application by the defendants for a receiver to protect some claimed rights in the land upon which the oranges were grown. The second was a notice to a water company not to transfer certain shares of stock to the plaintiff, the notice stating that plaintiff was not the owner of the stock, but that he held the same for the use and benefit of the defendants. The third notice was one directed to a petroleum company instructing that company not to make…