Gendron v. St. Pierre
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, for slanderous words. Trial at the May term, 1903, of the superior court before Pike, J., who found a verdict for the plaintiff. In the first count of the declaration, the alleged slanderous words are set .out.
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Case, for slanderous words. Trial at the May term, 1903, of the superior court before Pike, J., who found a verdict for the plaintiff. In the first count of the declaration, the alleged slanderous words are set .out. The second count is as follows: “And the plaintiff in fact further says that afterwards, to wit, on said twenty-ninth day of October, 1900, at said Manchester, in certain other discourse which the said defendant then and there had with divers other good citizens of this state of and concerning the plaintiff, the said defendant, with the malicious contrivance and intention…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
In the superior court the demurrer to the declaration was overruled, subject to the defendant’s exception. Instead of entering judgment upon the demurrer, the parties were ordered to trial and a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff. The declaration contained two counts (Tenney v. Clement, 10 N. H. 52, 53, 54) ; and as the verdict was general, it is to be presumed, in the absence of a certificate from the trial court showing the contrary, that the verdict was ordered upon evidence introduced upon both counts. If, then, the demurrer should have been sustained as to either count, the verdict…
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- Gorham v. IvesNew York Supreme Court · 1829
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