Law v. Scott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Charles county court. This was an action slander, brought’ bv the now appellee against the anPe^an^* declaration, after the usual introductory W01'^s bi actions of slaiifler of the plaintiff’s being a go.od, honest and faithful citizen, &c. stated, “and where» the plaintiff bad been nominated. by the president of United Slates, to, tl\e seu.ate thereof, fin* the office of commissioner of claims, &ci ■ Yet the defendant well the premises, but contriying, and…
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Appeal from Charles county court. This was an action slander, brought’ bv the now appellee against the anPe^an^* declaration, after the usual introductory W01'^s bi actions of slaiifler of the plaintiff’s being a go.od, honest and faithful citizen, &c. stated, “and where» the plaintiff bad been nominated. by the president of United Slates, to, tl\e seu.ate thereof, fin* the office of commissioner of claims, &ci ■ Yet the defendant well the premises, but contriying, and wickedly and maliciously intending to injure the plaintiff in his afore.good name, fame and credit, and wholly-to destroy tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Earle, 3.
delivered the opinion of thé court. We do iiot agree with the judges of Charles county court in the Opinions they pronounced in the third and eighth bills of exceptions in this record.
In our apprehension the court ought riot to have permitted the plaintiff to lay before the jury the following passage in the depositiori of tíeneral Armistead T. Mason:—“But the charges above mentioned, frorii their character could not have failed to have produced its rejection, even if there existed no other reason for it; and they doubtless, I presume, had á very considerable effect in producing it.”…
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