A report of the trail of the cause of John Taylor vs. Edward C. Delavan : prosecuted for alleged libel ; tried at the Albany circuit, April, 1940 ; and Mr. Delavan's correspondence with the ex. committee of the Albany city temperance society, &c.

"This action ... is brought for two publications in the Evening journal, in the month of February, 1835 ... The declaration sets forth that the defendant meant to charge that impure, dirty and filthy water ... had, for years, been carted to the malt-house of the plaintill; ant that he had been guilty of using that water in preparing barley for malt."--p. 45.

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