Regnier v. Cabot
Illinois Supreme Court
Slander in the Morgan Circuit Court, originally brought by the defendant in error, Cabot, in the Menard- Circuit Court, where a trial was had at the November term 1843, before the Hon. Samuel H. Treat and a jury, when a verdict for $12 was rendered in her favor.
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Slander in the Morgan Circuit Court, originally brought by the defendant in error, Cabot, in the Menard- Circuit Court, where a trial was had at the November term 1843, before the Hon. Samuel H. Treat and a jury, when a verdict for $12 was rendered in her favor. At the same te'rrn the "verdict was set aside, and a new trial granted on her motion, "when, by agreement, the venue was changed to Morgan 'county. -At the March term of the former Court, 1844, -the case was heard before the Hon. Samuel D. Lockwood and a jury. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff below for $1600.
1Opinion of the Court
The Opinion of the Court was delivered by
Purple, J.*
This was an action of slander, brought by Eliza S. Cabot, one of the defendants in error, before her marriage, against the plaintiff in error, and tried before the Hon. Samuel D. Lockwood, in the Morgan Circuit Court, at the March term 1844.
The declaration contains several counts, alleging in various forms that Regnier, the plaintiff in error, had charged Cabot, the defendant in error, with the commission of fornication. Regnier pleaded the general issue, and also a special plea of justification, to which last plea there was a demurrer,…
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