Stearns On Moran's Answer

This is the way the Adrian Press looks at it in its last issue:

"Moran, of the Ann Arbor Register, who has been sued for $10,000 damage, by Sheriff Judson for libel, has put in his plea: 1st. That he never said it. 2d. That Judson said it himself. 3d. That when Moran said it, he thought it was true. 4th. That though he didn't say it, he had a right to say it for the public good. 5th. That what he said, he didn't say, and it was no harm to Judson anyway, because it didn't charge him with any crime. 6th. That Judson never gave Moran any notice to retract what he did say."