Buquet v. Watkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the second district, the judge of the third presiding. The petition stated that the defendant had charged the plaintiff and his wife with having stolen from him certain smoothing irons, in consequence of which slander, he had sustained damage to the amount of one thousand dollars; and further, that the defendant, assisted by one Claiborne Watkins, had wantonly and unjustifiably imprisoned the plaintiff, in the st0cks, for which last injury he claimed…
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Appeal from the court of the second district, the judge of the third presiding. The petition stated that the defendant had charged the plaintiff and his wife with having stolen from him certain smoothing irons, in consequence of which slander, he had sustained damage to the amount of one thousand dollars; and further, that the defendant, assisted by one Claiborne Watkins, had wantonly and unjustifiably imprisoned the plaintiff, in the st0cks, for which last injury he claimed as damages the further sum of two thousand dollars. The defendant excepted to the petition on the ground that the…
1Opinion of the CourtPorter, J.
Two causes of action are united in the petition in this case, one an allegation that the plaintiff sustained injury by the defendant, falsely and maliciously stating that the plaintiff and his wife had stolen smoothing irons.
The other, falsely imprisoning him in the stocks, although the petitioner had been guilty of no crime or misdemeanor to warrant such 'an outrage on his person. By reason *134ofboth these injuries, damages are alleged to be sustained to the amount of three thousand dollars.
a demand for compensation in consequence of slander, is not eontrary to, and does not exclude a demand…
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