Harriott v. Plimpton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Four action's op tort. The first was against Lewis H. Plimpton, Edward H. Morrill, and Mary A. Squires, for causing the breach of the plaintiff’s engagement of marriage; the second was against Plimpton, who was a physician, for negligence in making an examination .of the plaintiff; the third was against Morrill for slander; and the fourth was against Plimpton for slander.
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Four action's op tort. The first was against Lewis H. Plimpton, Edward H. Morrill, and Mary A. Squires, for causing the breach of the plaintiff’s engagement of marriage; the second was against Plimpton, who was a physician, for negligence in making an examination .of the plaintiff; the third was against Morrill for slander; and the fourth was against Plimpton for slander. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Corcoran, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendants in the first case, and for' the defendant in each of the other cases; and the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
These actions of tort were tried together. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff, a jeweller and repairer of watches, and engaged to be married to the daughter of the defendant Morrill, received while at work an accidental injury which required the attention of a physician and the-application of remedies to his private parts. The defendant Squires, at whose house he boarded, told the defendant Morrill that the plaintiff had a disease and was not fit to marry, and at Morrill’s request made a similar statement to his daughter and family. Morrill took the plaintiff to the office of the…
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