Legal Opinion
Bragg v. Hammack
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 13, 1930PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrowning, J.
This is a suit by notice of motion for judgment in the Circuit Court of Brunswick county by R. W. Bragg v. L. *422J. Hammack involving alleged libel and claiming damages in the sum of $10,000.
The notice of motion which, for convenience, will hereinafter be called the complaint, sets forth the publication of the alleged libelous words with the innuendoes of the plaintiff parenthetically stated.
The defendant in the court below, defendant in error here, filed a plea of the general issue, also a plea of justification, alleging the truth of the words complained of, and his grounds of defense which…
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