Tingley

This action, was brought to recover damages for libel.

The complaint alleged that plaintiff was a resident of the county of San Diego, and the head of an institution known as the “Universal Brotherhood Headquarters, Loma Homestead,” at Point Loma in said county; that the defendant corporation was the owner and publisher of the Los Angeles Daily Times, a newspaper of general circulation; that on October 28, 1901, the defendant “wickedly and maliciously and with intent .and design to injure, disgrace and defame this plaintiff and to bring her into public discredit and obloquy,” published in said paper of and concerning plaintiff the following “false, libelous, malicious, and defamatory article, to wit:—•

It is then alleged that said publication was false, malicious, and defamatory, that plaintiff was not and had not been guilty of any of the matters so charged, and that all and every portion of said article charging plaintiff with improper practices, fraud, and immorality were false, malicious, libelous, and untrue, closing with a prayer for damages in the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

A demurrer to the complaint having been overruled, defendant on March 29, 1902, filed an…