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Juan Phee Vs. La Vanguardia 045 Phil 211

JUAN PHEE, plaintiff-appellant, vs. LA VANGUARDIA, INC., defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 20644 | 1923-10-08

D E C I S I O N


JOHNS, J .:

Under all of the authorities, the article was libelous per se. Although newspapers are in a privileged class, and the freedom of the press is recognized by all the courts, that does not give any newspaper the legal right to publish an article which is libelous per se about any person. Although the plaintiff did not make any formal demand on the defendant for the retraction of the article, it appears that he went to the office of the newspaper and told the employees that it was a case of a mistake in identity, and that he was not the person who committed the acts alleged in the published article. The defendant...