Hoag v. Hatch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of slander, tried before the superior court, for the county of Fairfield, February term, 1855. The declaration contained six counts,—only two of which, the second and fifth, are material to the present case.
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This was an action of slander, tried before the superior court, for the county of Fairfield, February term, 1855. The declaration contained six counts,—only two of which, the second and fifth, are material to the present case. In the second count, the plaintiff alleged that “the defendant had a certain discourse of, and concerning, the plaintiff, and of, and concerning, his election to the office of a justice of the peace, at an electors’ meeting, held in the town of Sherman, on the first Monday of April, 1852, and then and there falsely and maliciously uttered and published, in the presence…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The verdict, in this ease, was rendered for the plaintiff, and damages assessed, on the first five counts, collectively, and on the sixth count, separately. The motion, in arrest of judgment, is not pursued as to the sixth count, which is confessedly good. Respecting the first five counts, judgment should not be arrested on them, if any of them are sufficient; the rule here being that, in civil as well as criminal cases, on a motion in arrest of judgment, where there are several counts and a general verdict, judgment will not be arrested if any of them are good, and differing, in this…
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