Leonard

This is an action to recover five thousand dollars from the defendants for an alleged libel published of and concerning plaintiff, on January 12, 1894, in the San Benito Advance, a newspaper ^printed and published by defendants, at Hollister, in the county of San Benito, state of California.

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Defendants answered, raising issues of fact, which were tried before a jury, and a verdict in favor of defendants returned, upon which judgment was entered in their favor for costs.

This appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying plaintiff's motion for a new trial.

We cannot consider the motion for a new trial for several reasons, the most important of which is, that the statement contains no specification whatever of errors, or the particular reasons on which the moving party relies. (Nye v. Marysville etc. Street R. R. Co., 97 Cal. 461 ; Hershey v. Kness, 75 Cal. 115 ; Silva v. Holland, 74 Cal. 530 ; Dawson v. Schloss, 93 Cal. 194 ; Bohnert v. Bohnert, 95 Cal. 444 ; Pico v. Cohn, 67 Cal. 258 ; Ferrer v. Home Mut. Ins. Co., 47 Cal. 416 ; Spencer v. Long, 39 Cal. 700 ; Budd v. Drais, 50 Cal. 120 ; People v. Central Pac. R. R. Co., 43 Cal.…