The action at against Rev. Mary Baker Eddy for alleged libel resulted in a verdict in her favor in the Suffolk County Superior Court on Wednesday, June 5, 1901.
Judge Bell, who presided, delivered his opinion at the conclusion of all the testimony included in the plaintiff's case, and without hearing any testimony whatever on the part of the defence.
This opinion was to the effect that, regardless of whatever may have been the conjectures of others as to the meaning of the Scriptural passage complained of, there was no evidence that Mrs. Eddy had the plaintiff in mind, or that she used the words as relating to her. He therefore directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant.
