Parker v. Griffith
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for alleged slander in accusing the plaintiff, a physician, of ravishing the defendant’s wife after a surgical operation. The answer was a general denial, and a justification of truth. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only exceptions taken at the trial of this case relate to the exclusion of evidence. The plaintiff offered to show his general reputation as a man of skill in his profession, and to prove that his practice as a physician was profitable, and also to prove specific acts and operations performed by him tending to show his professional ability.' He also offered to show by *88his own testimony the diminution of his business since the utterance of the alleged slander by the defendant. The presiding justice excluded the testimony.
Upon the question ofliability, the issue was whether the words…
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