Browne v Dunn (1894) 6 Reports 67

Facts: Libel action against a solicitor. Defamatory material in a document stated that residents had authorised the solicitor (via signatures) to take proceedings against the Plaintiff (Pl) because of his various breaches of the peace. The alleged libel was committed when the solicitor had it drawn up and shown to the residents (for the purpose of getting them to authorise proceedings). The residents gave evidence as witnesses of their instructions to the solicitor. Pl alleged that the document was a sham, the residents never gave those instructions, and that the solicitor was on a frolic of his own in filing the proceedings. That was not put to any of the residents in cross-examination (CE).

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