Cooper v. Phipps
Oregon Supreme Court
Jackson County: W. C. Hale, Judge. This appeal is brought to reverse a judgment for five thousand dollars recovered by Emma Cooper in an action for libel against Calista Phipps and her son, Wm. Phipps.
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Jackson County: W. C. Hale, Judge. This appeal is brought to reverse a judgment for five thousand dollars recovered by Emma Cooper in an action for libel against Calista Phipps and her son, Wm. Phipps. It is charged that in a certain suit for divorce and for the custody of a minor child, pending in the superior court for the county of San Francisco, state of California, between the defendant William Phipps, as plaintiff, and Minnie Phipps, a sister of the plaintiff herein, as defendant, Calista Phipps, one of the defendants herein and mother of her co-defendant Wm. Phipps, was called and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. The first assignment of error necessary for us to consider is that as a part of plaintiff’s case in chief, evidence in her behalf was admitted tending to show that her general reputation for virtue and chastity was good. At the time this evidence was offered and admitted, no attack had been made by defendants, either in the pleadings or otherwise, upon the character of the plaintiff; and it was .then and there stated by their counsel, in open court, and in the hearing of the jury, that her reputation for virtue and chastity was admitted to be of the best, and that no attack would be made…
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